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Meir Kahane

The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical

By: Shaul Magid

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Meir Kahane

The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical

By: Shaul Magid

The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968, declaring that Jews must protect themselves by any means necessary. He immigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded KACH, an ultranationalist and racist political party. He would die by assassination in 1990. Shaul Magid provides an in-depth look at this controversial figure, showing how the postwar American experience shaped his life and political thought. Magid sheds new light on Kahane’s radical political views, his critique of liberalism, and his use of the “grammar of race” as a tool to promote Jewish pride. He discusses Kahane’s theory of violence as a mechanism to assure Jewish safety, and traces how his Zionism evolved from a fervent support of Israel to a belief that the Zionist project had failed. Magid examines how tradition and classical Jewish texts profoundly influenced Kahane’s thought later in life, and argues that Kahane’s enduring legacy lies not in his Israeli career but in the challenge he posed to the liberalism and assimilatory project of the postwar American Jewish establishment. This incisive book shows how Kahane was a quintessentially American figure, one who adopted the radicalism of the militant Left as a tenet of Jewish survival.

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Princeton University Press

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0691254699

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9780691254692

American Post-Judaism

Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society

By: Shaul Magid

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American Post-Judaism

Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society

By: Shaul Magid

Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness

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Indiana University Press

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0253008026

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9780253008022

Hasidism on the Margin

Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism

By: Shaul Magid

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Hasidism on the Margin

Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism

By: Shaul Magid

Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of Izbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh originated in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299192733

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9780299192730

Piety and Rebellion

Essays in Hasidism

By: Shaul Magid

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Piety and Rebellion

Essays in Hasidism

By: Shaul Magid

Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice. Many of the essays exhibit a comparative perspective deployed to better articulate the innovative spirit, and traditional challenges, Hasidism presents to the traditional Jewish world. Piety and Rebellion is an attempt to present Hasidism as one case whereby maximalist religion can yield a rebellious challenge to conventional conceptions of religious thought and practice.

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Academic Studies PRess

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1644690918

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American Post-Judaism

Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society

By: Shaul Magid

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Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society

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Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness

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Indiana University Press

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From Metaphysics to Midrash

Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala

By: Shaul Magid

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From Metaphysics to Midrash

Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala

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In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the exegetical tradition of Isaac Luria and his followers within the historical context in 16th-century Safed, a unique community that brought practitioners of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam into close contact with one another. Luria's scripture became a theater in which kabbalists redrew boundaries of difference in areas of ethnicity, gender, and the human relation to the divine. Magid investigates how cultural influences altered scriptural exegesis of Lurianic Kabbala in its philosophical, hermeneutical, and historical perspectives. He suggests that Luria and his followers were far from cloistered. They used their considerable skills to weigh in on important matters of the day, offering, at times, some surprising solutions to perennial theological problems.

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Indiana University Press

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0253000378

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Hasidism on the Margin

Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism

By: Shaul Magid

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Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism

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Meir Kahane

The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical

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The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical

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Princeton University Press

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A Cold War Exodus

How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews

By: Shaul Kelner

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A Cold War Exodus

How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews

By: Shaul Kelner

Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan–Bush years What do these things have in common? Ingrid Bergman, Passover matzoh, Banana Republic®, the fitness craze, the Philadelphia Flyers, B-grade spy movies, and ten thousand Bar and Bat Mitzvah sermons? Nothing, except that social movement activists enlisted them all into the most effective human rights campaign of the Cold War. The plight of Jews in the USSR was marked by systemic antisemitism, a problem largely ignored by Western policymakers trying to improve relations with the Soviets. In the face of governmental apathy, activists in the United States hatched a bold plan: unite Jewish Americans to demand that Washington exert pressure on Moscow for change. A Cold War Exodus delves into the gripping narrative of how these men and women, through ingenuity and determination, devised mass mobilization tactics during a three-decade-long campaign to liberate Soviet Jews—an endeavor that would ultimately lead to one of the most significant mass emigrations in Jewish history. Drawing from a wealth of archival sources including the travelogues of thousands of American tourists who smuggled aid to Russian Jews, Shaul Kelner offers a compelling tale of activism and its profound impact, revealing how a seemingly disparate array of elements could be woven together to forge a movement and achieve the seemingly impossible. It is a testament to the power of unity, creativity, and the unwavering dedication of those who believe in the cause of human rights.

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NYU Press

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1479879398

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9781479879397

Piety and Rebellion

Essays in Hasidism

By: Shaul Magid

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Essays in Hasidism

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Families, Rabbis and Education

Traditional Jewish Society in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe

By: Shaul Stampfer

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Families, Rabbis and Education

Traditional Jewish Society in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe

By: Shaul Stampfer

Viewing the Jewish history of eastern Europe through the prism of the lives of ordinary people produces findings that are sometimes surprising but always stimulating.

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Liverpool University Press

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1909821144

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9781909821149

Hasidism Incarnate

Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism

By: Shaul Magid

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Hasidism Incarnate

Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism

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Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude toward ritual and faith. Shaul Magid argues that the Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe constitutes an alternative "modernity," one that opens a new window on Jewish theological history. Unlike Judaism in German lands, Hasidism did not develop under a "Christian gaze" and had no need to be apologetic of its positions. Unburdened by an apologetic agenda (at least toward Christianity), it offered a particular reading of medieval Jewish Kabbalah filtered through a focus on the charismatic leader that resulted in a religious worldview that has much in common with Christianity. It is not that Hasidic masters knew about Christianity; rather, the basic tenets of Christianity remained present, albeit often in veiled form, in much kabbalistic teaching that Hasidism took up in its portrayal of the charismatic figure of the zaddik, whom it often described in supernatural terms.

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Stanford University Press

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0804793468

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9780804793469

Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century

Creating a Tradition of Learning

By: Shaul Stampfer

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Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century

Creating a Tradition of Learning

By: Shaul Stampfer

This is the first systematic study of the Lithuanian yeshivas that flourished from 1802 to 1914 in their social and cultural context; their legacy still dominates orthodox Jewish society. The main focus is the yeshiva of Volozhin, which in its independence of the local community was the model for everything that followed, but chapters are also devoted to the yeshivas of Slobodka and Telz, and to the kollel system.

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1789627877

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Meditation from the Heart of Judaism

Today's Teachers Share Their Practices, Techniques, and Faith

By: Avram Davis

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Meditation from the Heart of Judaism

Today's Teachers Share Their Practices, Techniques, and Faith

By: Avram Davis

Techniques explained by the masters—for today’s spiritual seeker Meditation is designed to give you direct access to the spiritual. Whether it’s through deep breathing during a busy day, listening to the quiet after turning off the car radio, chanting in prayer, or ten minutes of visualization exercises each morning, meditation takes many forms. But it is always a personal method of centering our spiritual self. Meditation has long been practiced in the Jewish community as a powerful tool to transcend words, personality, and ego and to directly experience the divine. Inspiring yet practical, this introduction to meditation from a Jewish perspective approaches it in a new and illuminating way: As it is personally practiced by today’s most experienced Jewish meditators from around the world. A “how to” guide for both beginning and experienced meditators, Meditation from the Heart of Judaism will help you start meditating or help you enhance your practice. Meditation is a Jewish spiritual resource for today that can benefit people of all faiths and backgrounds—and help us add spiritual energy to our lives. Contributors include:

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Turner Publishing Company

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1580236650

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9781580236652

Book's by Shaul Magid

Meir Kahane

Meir Kahane

American Post-Judaism

American Post-Judaism

Hasidism on the Margin

Hasidism on the Margin

Piety and Rebellion

Piety and Rebellion

American Post-Judaism

American Post-Judaism

From Metaphysics to Midrash

From Metaphysics to Midrash

Hasidism on the Margin

Hasidism on the Margin

Meir Kahane

Meir Kahane

A Cold War Exodus

A Cold War Exodus

Piety and Rebellion

Piety and Rebellion

Families, Rabbis and Education

Families, Rabbis and Education

Hasidism Incarnate

Hasidism Incarnate

Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century

Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century

Meditation from the Heart of Judaism

Meditation from the Heart of Judaism

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