This work in the field of intellectual history explores religious ideas whichemerged in Jewish thought under the influence of secular ideologies, and in response to the social and cultural realities created by Jewish Emancipation, Zionism and socialism. By concentrating on the major Jewish Orthodox movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Fishman examines the innovative mechanisms of traditional Judaism that were activated by these movements, as they strove to accommodate new realities. The study focuses specificallyon the Religious Kibbutz Federation in Israel, which (in the process of building its self-contained pioneering settlements) developed a religious sub-culture that incorporated the central values of Jewish nationalism and socialism. Professor Fishman shows that - by creating the most far-reaching synthesis of modern, and traditional Jewish, culture at the community level - the settlements of the RKF may be regarded as a test case for the measure of the capacity ofJudaism to adapt to modern life. INDICE: 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.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-05027-2
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha Publicación: 14/02/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés