Inhalt: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Thoughts on Jewish Radicalism as a Phenomenon of Global Modernity / Kunze, Sebastian / Jacob, Frank -- Section I. Political Radicalisms -- Pathways of Early Post-Zionism / Vater, Roman -- Revolutionary Fascist or Fascist Revolutionary. Abba Ahimeir and the Success of Revolutionary Zionism / Bergamin, Peter -- The Radical (Re‐)Interpretation of Jewish Class and Nation. Poale Zion and the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 / Rybak, Jan -- The Settler, the Native and the Communist. Nationalism, Colonialism, and Imperialism in Moshe Sneh’s and Emil Touma’s Ideology, 1953–1973 / Locker-Biletzki, Amir -- Radical Trinity. Anarchist, Jew, or New Yorker? / Jacob, Frank -- Jewish Radicalism as a Liminal Space. HaShomer haTza’ir between Zionism and the New Left, 1967–1973 / Elmaliach, Tal -- Section II. Religious Radicalisms -- Psychedelic Judaism in a Countercultural America. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and the Radical Religiosity of LSD Consciousness / Shipley, Morgan -- Nihilism and Extremist Religious Education in Contemporary Israel. The King’s Torah and its Discontents / Dal Bo, Federico -- Reactions Towards Jewish Radicalism. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg and Religious Zionism / Katsman, Hayim -- Religious Radicalism, the Zionist Right, and the Establishment of the State of Israel / Gruweis-Kovalsky, Ofira -- Section III: Cultural Radicalisms -- Education, Citizenship, Social Justice. Janusz Korczak and Jewish Community Action in Warsaw at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Klein, Anne -- Mel Brooks’ Subversive Cabaret. The Producers (1968) / Lederer, Peter Scott -- The Cultural Heretic Gustav. Landauer as a Radical Writer / Kunze, Sebastian -- Jewish Radicalism as Radical Diversity? Radical Thought in Jewish Perspectives on the Jewish Question in early Nineteenth Century Germany / Peaceman, Hannah -- Contributors -- Index Jewish radical thoughts and actions can be described in a variety of terms and dimensions. This volume wants to survey Jewish radicalism and present different approaches on this global historical phenomenon. It is focused on the 19th and 20th century and tries to grasped the manyfold Ideas of Jewish radicalism and, thereby, it approaches the term Jewish radicalism from different perspectives and wants to extend the understanding of this phenomenon Radical thoughts and acts are merely a non-conformist attitude; they are usually marginal and are directed against the ruling society. Thereby, these radical thoughts and acts could be classified as politcally left or right, progressive or reactionary. The volume wants to sharpen the term “Jewish Radicalism” and provide different perspectives on the historical phenomenon and its dimensions |
