A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy : : Volume V: Creating New Jewish Centers. the Visionaries of First Fulfillment in the Land of Israel.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Series ; v.38
• Author: Schweid, Eliezer.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)

A thorough inside narrative and analysis of the seminal thinkers, religious and secular, of the Yishuv, 1900-48--Brenner, Gordon, Ya'ari, Katznelson, Jabotinsky, Kaufmann, Kook, Hirschensohn, Bialik, Amiel, Maimon, Alterman, Sadan, and others.

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1 The Challenges and Problems of Aliyah and Building
• 2 The Experience of Return from Exile to Homeland
• 2.1 Two Thinkers of the Second Aliyah
• 2.2 From Podolia to Degania: Gordon's Life Career
• 2.3 The Life of Yosef Ḥayyim Brenner
• 2.4 Brenner's Interpretation of Mendele
• 2.5 Gordon's Differences with Brenner
• 2.6 Man and Nature: Epistemological Starting Point
• 2.7 Reason versus Living: Exile from Nature and Return
• 2.8 Gordon's Relation to Kabbalah and Modern Philosophy
• 2.9 Ḥavaya: Life Knowledge or Protoknowledge
• 2.10 Complementarity of Protoknowledge and Reflective Knowledge
• 2.11 Gordon's Theory of National Cultures and Religion
• 2.12 Idolatry, Buddhism, and Ethical Monotheism
• 2.13 Avodah: Labor as Service of God
• 2.14 Self-Actualization, Not Altruism, as Basis for Ethics
• 2.15 Toward an Ethical Nationalism
• 2.16 Language as Basis for National Culture
• 2.17 Family, Community, and Nation
• 2.18 Critique of Capitalist Statism and Marxist Socialism
• 2.19 The Alternative: a Humane, Organic Zionism
• 3 Marxism between Communism and Pioneering Zionism
• 3.1 Marxist Tendencies in the Third Aliyah
• 3.2 Leaders of the Kibbutz and Moshav Movements
• 3.3 Values and Ambience of the Socialist Zionists
• 3.4 Fundamentals of Marxist Zionist Ideology
• 3.5 Tensions in Socialist Zionist Theory and Practice
• 3.6 The Place of Hebrew Culture and Religious Traditions in Socialist Zionist Ideology
• 3.7 Issues in the Splits in the Socialist Zionist Parties
• 3.8 Berl Katznelson's Mediating Approach
• 4 Revival of the Jewish People in Its Land according to Torah:
• 4.1 Kook and Hirschensohn: Two Religious Responses to the Second Aliyah
• 4.2 Kook's Intellectual Formation in Yeshiva and Haskalah
• 4.3 Kook's Intergenerational Mediating Approach.
• 4.4 Kook's Maturation after Making Aliyah
• 4.5 Kook's Dialectical Interpretation of Zionist Redemption as Teshuvah (Return)
• 4.6 Methodological Assumptions: Complementarity of Opposing Perspectives
• 4.7 General Contours of Kook's Method: Philosophical Prophecy
• 4.8 Prophetic versus Ordinary Knowledge
• 4.9 Role of Imagination: the Medievals and Schelling
• 4.10 Jewry's Uniqueness: Updating Halevi
• 4.11 Kook's Historical Schema: Exile and Messianic Age
• 4.12 Ḥayyim Hirschensohn: Halakha, Pragmatism, and Democracy
• 4.13 Hirschensohn on Pedagogy and Hebrew Culture
• 4.14 Hirschensohn as Philosopher: Critique of Spinoza
• 4.15 Halakha as Ideal Jurisprudence in a Modern Context
• 4.16 Nationality and Religion in Hirschensohn's Thought
• 4.17 Hirschensohn's Prescriptions for a Democratic Jewish State
• 5 Judaism as a Romantic National Culture (The Thought of Ze'ev Jabotinsky)
• 5.1 Jabotinsky's Career and His Position in Zionist Politics
• 5.2 Philosophical Dimensions of Jabotinsky's Thought: Ideal of Hadar (Chivalry)
• 5.3 The Jewish Right to the Land of Israel: Differences with Brit Shalom
• 5.4 The Shape of the State and Society: Differences with Labor Zionism
• 5.5 Hebrew Culture and Religion in Jabotinsky's Thought
• 5.6 Jabotinsky's Relation to Ben Gurion and Katznelson
• 6 The Unique Religion and Historical Destiny of the Jewish People, Scientifically Considered (The T
• 6.1 Kaufmann's Existential Starting Point: the Spiritual Will to Continuity
• 6.2 Autonomous Spirit in a Natural World, Empirically Studied
• 6.3 An Empirically Based Conception of National Identity
• 6.4 Religion's Role in Jewish Survival in Diaspora
• 6.5 Religion and Nationality in Ancient Israel
• 6.6 Exile and Alienation in Jewish History
• 6.7 The Challenge of Modernity and the Zionist Response.
• 6.8 Affirming Monotheism for Modern Hebrew Culture: Influence of Cohen, Critique of Wellhausen
• 6.9 Kaufmann's Redefinition of National Spirit and the Monotheistic Idea
• 6.10 Comparing Kaufmann with Peer Scholars: Baer, Klausner, Dinur, Mahler
• 7 Creating a Hebrew Culture from the Sources of Judaism (The
• 7.1 Bialik as Cultural Exemplar
• 7.2 Bialik's Essays as Expression of His Theory of Culture
• 7.3 Bialik's Theory of Language: Revealment and Concealment, Mimesis and Expression
• 7.4 Bialik's Myths of Childhood, Nature, Exile, and Redemption
• 7.5 "The Hebrew Book": Updating the Canon
• 7.6 Redefining Obligation: "Halakha and Aggadah"
• 7.7 The Prophetic Thrust of Bialik's Poetry
• 8 The Development of Modern Orthodoxy in Eretz Israel's Religious Zionism and the "Holy Rebellion"
• 8.1 The Challenges to Religious Zionism in Eretz Israel
• 8.2 Rabbi Yehuda Maimon's Teaching: Land, People, Torah
• 8.3 Rabbi Moshe Amiel's Guide to the Perplexed
• 8.4 Rabbi Samuel Landau: Torah and Labor
• 9 Facing Destruction, with Hope for Rebirth (Messianic
• 9.1 Double Shock: Holocaust and State
• 9.2 Initial Responses: Doubling down on Previous Principles
• 9.3 Moderates and Extremists in Labor Zionism
• 9.4 Radicalization in Revisionist Zionism
• 9.5 The Radical Pacifism of Brit Shalom
• 9.6 Second Thoughts: Livneh, Ben-Asher, Katznelson, Alterman
• 9.7 Literary Approaches: Kariv and Steinman
• 9.8 Dov Sadan as Educator: Reevaluating the Yiddish Legacy
• 9.9 Damiel's Return to Religion
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• General Works on the Period
• Chapter 1: Challenges and Problems of Aliyah
• Chapter 2: A.D. Gordon and Y. H. Brenner
• Primary Texts
• Secondary Studies
• Chapter 3: National Marxism
• Primary Texts
• Secondary Studies
• Chapter 4: Renaissance by Torah: R. Abraham Kook and Chaim Hirschensohn
• Primary Texts.
• Secondary Studies
• Chapter 5: Judaism as Romantic National Culture (Jabotinsky)
• Primary Texts
• Secondary Studies
• Chapter 6: Jewish Uniqueness Scientifically Considered (Yehezkel Kaufmann)
• Primary Texts
• Secondary Studies
• Chapter 7: Creating Hebrew Culture from Jewish Sources (Bialik)
• Primary Texts
• Secondary Studies
• Chapter 8: Modern Orthodoxy in Israeli Religious Zionism (Y. L. Hakohen Maimon, Avigdor Amiel, and Sh. Ch. Landau)
• Primary Texts
• Secondary Studies
• Chapter 9: Responding to the Holocaust and Hope of Rebuilding: Messianic Extremism in Secular Zionism and Awakening of Second Thoughts
• Primary Texts
• Secondary Studies
• Index.