The Origins of Democratic Zionism

ISBN-13: 9780367786816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

Gregory B. Kaplan

Opis

This book is the first to link the modern appreciation for democratic freedom directly to Jewish political thought in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.

Recenzje

‘This is an original study that sheds light on a relatively unknown chapter in Western history, revealing that Enlightenment thinkers such as Spinoza and Grotius found inspiration in, and likely cribbed their ideas from, the most unlikely of places: a rabbi and his interpretation of the Hebrew bible and the fate of the Jews in it. Kaplan shows how the rabbi of Amsterdam, Saul Levi Morteira, imagined a democratic ideal society as an alternative to the persecuting, monarchical Habsburg Empire.’ – Michelle M. Hamilton, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

Spis treści

Introduction: From Democracy to Democratic Zionism  1 Flawed Democracy, the Aristotelian Agricultural Democracy, and the Hebrew Republic  2 The Medieval Divine-Right Monarchy, an Anti-Hebrew Republic  3 The Divine-Right Spanish Monarchy and the Conversos  4 The Hebrew Republic as an Alternative to Habsburg Rule and the Emergence of Morteira, Barrios and Spinoza  5 The Hebrew Republic and Democratic Zionism in the Writings of Morteira  6 Morteira, Hobbes and the Democratic Zionism of Spinoza and Barrios  7 Democratic Zionism and Twenty-First Century Zionism;  Appendix: Treatise on the Truth of the Law of Moses, Chapters One, Two, Ten and Eleven (Translation into English by Gregory B. Kaplan)

O autorze

Gregory B. Kaplan is Professor of Spanish and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, USA.