Jewish Radical Ultra Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and - Women s Equalit

Informationen zum Autor Motti Inbari is an Associate Professor of Religion at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. He is a leading expert on Jewish fundamentalism and has won such prestigious awards as the Adolf L. Dial Award for Scholarship in 2014. Klappentext An historical study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York. Zusammenfassung A study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary! Jerusalem and New York. Inbari reviews the history! ideology and gender relations of prominent ultra-Orthodox leaders Amram Blau! founder of the anti-Zionist Jerusalemite Neturei Karta! and Yoel Teitelbaum! head of the Satmar Hasidic movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The de Haan assassination and the background to the formation of Neturei Karta; 2. Rabbi Amram Blau, founder of the Neturei Karta movement; 3. The modesty campaigns of Rabbi Amram Blau and the Neturei Karta movement, 1938-74; 4. Messianic activism in the work and thought of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapira (the Munkacser Rebbe) in the interwar period; 5. The life and work of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, founder of the Satmar Hasidic court in New York; 6. Eschatology, dualism, and the decline of the generations - the world view of radical ultra-orthodoxy; 7. Jewish zealotry - past and present; Epilogue. Contemporary trends in radical ultra-orthodoxy.

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• Authors: Mordechai Inbari, Motti Inbari, Motti (University of North Carolina Inbari, Inbari Motti
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781107088108
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08810-8
• No. of pages: 279
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Europe, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, comparative religion, HISTORY / Jewish, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Religion & politics, Jewish Studies, Biography: religious & spiritual, Religious issues & debates, Religion and Politics, Biography: religious and spiritual, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religious issues and debates