Motti Inbari

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

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Produktbeschreibung

An historical study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 279
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781107088108
• ISBN-10: 1107088100
• Artikelnr.: 43551122

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.