Title:
תודעת משנה, תודעת מקרא צפת והתרבות הציונית אמנון רז־קרקוצקין
Author, Corporation:
רז-קרקוצקין, אמנון 1958-
Author, Corporation:
מכון ון ליר בירושלים
Publisher:
ירושלים : הוצאת מכון ון ליר
Publisher:
[בני ברק] : הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד
ISBN:
9789650211660
,
9650211667
Language:
Hebrew
Pages:
271 Seiten
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Sidrat Heḳshere ʿiyun u-viḳoret
Keywords:
Bible
;
Mishnah
;
Bible
;
Mishnah
;
1500-1599
;
Jews History 16th century
;
Religion and sociology
;
Zionism
;
Faith Social aspects
;
Zionism and Judaism
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Ethnic relations
;
Jews
;
Religion and sociology
;
Zionism
;
Zionism and Judaism
;
History
;
Palestine Emigration and immigration 16th century
;
Tsefat (Israel) Ethnic relations
;
Israel
;
Israel - Tsefat
;
Middle East - Palestine
Abstract:
In the sixteenth century, mainly after the Ottomans' gained control of the Land of Israel, a group of venerable Jewish personages assembled in Safed. They included Rabbi Joseph Caro, author of the "Shulchan Aruch;" The Holy Ari, Rabbi Isaac Luria and his disciple, Rabbi Chaim Vital; Rabbi Moshe Cordovero; Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz; and the great liturgical poet, Rabbi Yisrael Najara. These figures, each in his own way, reshaped Jewish culture and tradition for the following generations. It was a formative historical moment, an unusual, albeit brief, blossoming. Nevertheless, modern Jewish historical consciousness, and especially Israeli collective memory, have a reserved and ambivalent attitude toward Safed, and even disregard it. The rejection of historical Safed is intertwined with a rejection of its legacy, even though this legacy continues to exist in the world of many Jews. The book "Mishna Consciousness, Biblical Consciousness: Safed and Zionist Culture" examines the consciousness of the sixteenth-century settlers in Safed in relation to modern Zionist consciousness and presents them as two theological-political models of settlement in the Land of Israel: one is based on the Mishna and the other on the Hebrew Bible. The personages of Safed turned to the Land of Israel of the period following the destruction of the Temple and sought to connect to the Tana'im--first and foremost to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar. Zionism, in contrast, set its sights on the period of the conquest and settlement, especially of Joshua and the Judges, in line with the modern Western Christian approach. The book does not present Safed as an alternative to Zionism, but rather uses it as a mirror for an inquiry into such concepts as nationalism, secularization, and tradition. The focus on Safed and the attitude toward it, the book argues, offers an opening for a reformulation of modern culture in general, and Jewish Israeli culture in particular
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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