The Making of Modern Jewish Identity: Ideological Change and Religious Conversion

ISBN-13: 9780367728663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Motti Inbari

Opis

This volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish leaders – rabbis, politicians, and intellectuals – to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and Orthodoxy.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Moving Away From Communism: The Case of Arthur Koestler  2. "Is it good for the Jews?" The Conversion of Norman Podhoretz, Editor of Commentary magazine, from the New Left to Neoconservatism  3. From Anti-Zionist Orthodoxy to Messianic Religious Zionist: the Case of Yissachar Shlomo Teichtel  4. From Spiritual Conversion to Ideological Conversion: The Quest of Ruth Ben-David  5. The "Deconversion" of Haim Herman Cohn: A Model of Secular Religion  6. Avraham (Avrum) Burg between Religious Zionism and Post-Zionism  Concluding remarks

O autorze

Motti Inbari is an Associate Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. An expert in the study of Jewish Orthodoxy, his books include Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount (2009), Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises (2012), and Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women’s Equality (2016).