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The origins of democratic Zionism /

This book is the first to link the modern appreciation for democratic freedom directly to Jewish political thought in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The modern appreciation for democratic values is often assumed to have its roots in Classical thought. However, democracy has taken various forms in it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Gregory B., 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2019]
Subjects:
Mortera, Saul Levi, > 1596?-1660.
Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677.
Barrios, Miguel de, > 1635-1701.
Zionism > History.
Democracy > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Judaism and state.
Table of Contents:
  • List of abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: From Democracy to Democratic Zionism
  • Flawed Democracy, the Aristotelian Agricultural Democracy and the Hebrew Republic
  • The Medieval Divine-Right Monarchy, an Anti-Hebrew Republic
  • The Divine-Right Spanish Monarchy and the Conversos
  • The Hebrew Republic as an Alternative to Habsburg Rule and the Emergence of Morteira, Barrios and Spinoza
  • The Hebrew Republic and Democratic Zionism in the Writings of Morteira
  • Morteira, Hobbes and the Democratic Zionism of Spinoza and Barrios
  • Democratic Zionism and Twenty-First Century Zionism
  • Appendix: Treatise on the Truth of the Law of Moses, Chapters One, Two, Ten and Eleven (Translation into English by Gregory B. Kaplan)
  • Index.