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Hastening redemption : Messianism and the resettlement of the land of Israel
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Uniform Title
Meshiḥiyut ṿe-yishuv Erets Yiśraʾel. English
Title
Hastening redemption : Messianism and the resettlement of the land of Israel / Arie Morgenstern ; translated by Joel A. Linsider.
ISBN
0195305787 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
x, 284 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translated from the Hebrew.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 12, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.
Contents
chap. 1. Background of the early-nineteenth-century messianic awakening
chap. 2. Belief in 5600 (1840) as the year of redemption
chap. 3. Immigration to the land of Israel, 1808-1840
chap. 4. Process of redemption envisioned by the Vilna Ga'on's disciples
chap. 5. Attempt to renew rabbinic ordination in Safed
chap. 6. "Raising the shekhinah from the dust" by rebuilding Jerusalem
chap. 7. Expanding and solidifying Jewish settlement in the land of Israel
chap. 8. Crisis of faith in the wake of unfulfilled expectations
chap. 9. Retreat from the idea of "redemption through return to Zion"
Epilogue. Emergence of a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.
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