Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz

ISBN-13: 9780521403887 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 220 str.

Israel) Aryei Fishman (Bar-Ilan University

Opis

This study examines the capacity of traditional Judaism to renew itself in response to the challenge of modernity. Concentrating as it does on the major Jewish Orthodox movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book focuses especially on the Religious Kibbutz Federation in Israel, whose pioneering settlements attained a sophisticated synthesis of modern and traditional Jewish culture at the community level. Professor Fishman provides the first sociological study of the formation of modern Orthodox Judaism, as well as the first scholarly study of the religious kibbutz.

Recenzje

"What makes his contribution particularly unique is that his focus is on the Religious Kibbutz Federation in Israel, a federation that was not only religious, but which also incorportated the central values of Jewish nationalsim and socialism. Moreover, he inverts the usual approach to Orthodoxy by suggesting that traditional Judaism can provide 'vigorous mechanisms for legitimate innovation in response to modernity, as well as limit change'....Fishman deftly characterizes the intellectual processes and forces whereby the very traditions that rail against modernism become modern phenomena by skillfully weaving an array of theoretical arguments and primary data to make his points. Fishman leaves the reader with an appreciation of his command of the historical scholarship." Debra Kaufman, Critical Review

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Prologue: 1. Conceptual and historical background; Part II. The Parent Orthodox Modernizing Movements: 2. Torah-im-Derekh Eretz; 3. Religious Zionism; Part III. The Religious Kibbutz Movement: 4. The foundations of the Religious Kibbutz Movement; 5. Charisma and rationalization; 6. The halakhic-socialist collective; 7. The confrontation between halakhah and external reality; 8. Between heteronomous and autonomous authority; Afterword; Appendices; Notes; Index.