Pioneers of Religious Zionism describes the lives and philosophies of the most important rabbinical Zionists of the 19th and early-20th centuries: Yehuda ben Shlomo Alkalai; Zvi Hirsch Kalischer; Samuel Mohliver; Jacob Reines; Abraham Isaac Kook; and Judah Leib (Fishman) Maimon. The book describes how these men joined secular Zionists in the struggle for the reestablishment of a Jewish national home—an unusual act for their time—and had to contend with fierce opposition and condemnations from many rabbis in Eastern Europe; who believed that the return of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland of Israel depended upon the arrival of the Messiah. What emerges from this biographical study is that; in their lives and writings; these rabbis provided the foundation on which modern religious Zionism was built.
#2766231 in Books 2012-12-21Original language:English; MultilingualPDF # 1 7.72 x .51 x 5.20l; .25 #File Name: 9381406189128 pages
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