Seeking Zion : modernity and messianic activism in the writings of Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer /

Focusing on the teachings of Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer, this study examines the modern revival of the belief among religious Jews that they are duty-bound to hasten messianic redemption.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Myers, Jody Elizabeth, 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012.
Series:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Subjects:
Kalischer, Ẓevi Hirsch, > 1795-1874.
Redemption > Judaism.
Messiah > Judaism.
Messianic era (Judaism)
Rédemption > Judaïsme.
Messie > Judaïsme.
Ère messianique (Judaïsme)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Messianic idea in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, 1782-1819
  • Raising a rabbi in the Posen district, 1795-1823
  • The letter to Rothschild, 1836
  • Sacrifice and redemption, 1836-1837
  • Finkion proper faith, 1837-1855
  • The return to activism, 1855-1861
  • Seeking Zion, 1862-1874.

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