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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: making of modern Jewish identity
    sub title: ideological change and religious conversion
  name:
    name part: Inbari, Motti
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 172 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish leaders, rabbis, politicians and intellectuals, to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism and Orthodoxy. Comparing their ideological change to acts of conversion, the study examines the philosophical, sociological and psychological path of the leaders' transformation. The individuals examined are: novelist Arthur Koestler, transformed from a devout Communist to an anti-Communist crusader following the atrocities of the Stalin regime, Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine, moved from the New Left to neo-Conservative, disillusioned by US liberal politics, Yissachar Shlomo Teichtel, transformed from an ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Hungarian rabbi to messianic Religious-Zionist due to the events of the Holocaust, Ruth Ben-David, converted to Judaism after the Second World War in France because of her sympathy with Zionism, eventually becoming a radical anti-Israeli advocate, Haim Herman Cohn, Israeli Supreme Court Justice, grew up as a non-Zionist Orthodox Jew in Germany, later renouncing his belief in God due to the events of the Holocaust and Avraham (Avrum) Burg, prominent centrist Israeli politician who served as the Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency, later became a post-Zionist. Comparing aspects of modern politics to religion, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas including modern Jewish studies, sociology of religion and political science.
  table of contents: Moving away from communism: the case of Arthur Koestler -- "Is it good for the Jews?" The conversion of Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine, from the new left to neoconservativism -- From anti-Zionist orthodoxy to messianic religious Zionist: the case of Yissachar Shlomo Teichtel -- From spiritual conversion to ideological conversion: the quest -- The "Deconversion" of Haim Herman Cohn: a model of secular religion -- Avraham (Avrum) Burg between Religious-Zionism and Post-Zionism -- Concluding remarks.
  note: Motti Inbari.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-167) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Identity
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Conversion
    topic: Judaism
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: DS143 .I53 2019
  classification: 305.892/4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge Jewish studies series
  identifier: 9780367135959
  identifier: 0367135957
  identifier: 9780429027390 (ebook)
  identifier: 9780429648595 (epub)
  identifier: 9780429645952 (mobipocket)
  identifier: 2019006620
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190213
    record change date: 20191021075825.0
    record identifier: in00004071653