Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist
Autor David Barak-Gorodetsky Traducere de Merav Datanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2021
Like a prophet unable to suppress his prophecy, Magnes could not resist a religious calling to take political action, whatever the cost. In Palestine no one understood his uniquely American pragmatism and insistence that a constitutional system was foundational for a just society. Jewish leaders regarded his prophetic politics as overly conciliatory and dangerous for negotiations. Magnes’s central European allies in striving for a binational Palestine, including Martin Buber, credited him with restoring their faith in politics, but they ultimately retreated from binationalism to welcome the new State of Israel.
In candidly portraying the complex Magnes as he understood himself, David Barak-Gorodetsky elucidates why Magnes persevered, despite evident lack of Arab interest, to advocate binationalism with Truman in May 1948 at the ultimate price of Jewish sovereignty. Accompanying Magnes on his long-misunderstood journey, we gain a unique broader perspective: on early peacemaking efforts in Israel/Palestine, the American Jewish role in the history of the state, binationalism as political theology, an American view of binationalism, and the charged realities of Israel today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780827615168
ISBN-10: 0827615167
Pagini: 364
Ilustrații: index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: The Jewish Publication Society
Colecția The Jewish Publication Society
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0827615167
Pagini: 364
Ilustrații: index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: The Jewish Publication Society
Colecția The Jewish Publication Society
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
David Barak-Gorodetsky is a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago Divinity School and director of the Ruderman Program for Jewish American studies at the University of Haifa. He is also editor of Stripes, Stars, and Magen David: The Jewish American Contribution to the Yishuv and the State of Israel and Connected Vessels: Thoughts in Jewish Education.
Cuprins
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. “Mending the World”: Religious and Political Foundations
1. The Importance of Being Earnest
2. “Palestine or Death”
3. Prophetic Socialism and Social Gospel
4. The Religious Mission of Pacifism
Part 2. “For the Sake of Zion”: Promoting Binationalism in Palestine
5. The High Holy Days in Jerusalem
6. Hebrew University and Brit Shalom
7. The Prophetic Model
8. Nationalism and Binationalism
9. Binationalism as Theological Politics
10. Magnes and the Theopolitics of Buber
11. Faith and Skepticism in the Binational Cause
Part 3. “The Eclipse of God”: War, Holocaust, and the Founding of the State
12. Existential Theology and Moral Politics
13. Religion Overrides Nationalism
14. The Sacred Land and the Negation of the State
15. The Confederation Plan between Hope and Despair
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. “Mending the World”: Religious and Political Foundations
1. The Importance of Being Earnest
2. “Palestine or Death”
3. Prophetic Socialism and Social Gospel
4. The Religious Mission of Pacifism
Part 2. “For the Sake of Zion”: Promoting Binationalism in Palestine
5. The High Holy Days in Jerusalem
6. Hebrew University and Brit Shalom
7. The Prophetic Model
8. Nationalism and Binationalism
9. Binationalism as Theological Politics
10. Magnes and the Theopolitics of Buber
11. Faith and Skepticism in the Binational Cause
Part 3. “The Eclipse of God”: War, Holocaust, and the Founding of the State
12. Existential Theology and Moral Politics
13. Religion Overrides Nationalism
14. The Sacred Land and the Negation of the State
15. The Confederation Plan between Hope and Despair
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"A fascinating book about a rare Reform Jewish Zionist rabbi of the 20th century who came to Israel long before the establishment of the state and struggled for peace between Jews and Arabs in this land all of his life. It is also a comprehensive and conscientious intellectual study of a theologian/activist who integrated his American background with many of the central strands of Zionist thinking in the 20th century."—Jerusalem Report
“One might imagine that nothing novel could be written about Judah Magnes, but this highly original, sophisticated, and brilliantly insightful portrait of Magnes against the backdrop of his times allows Magnes to come alive anew as a man of great religious conviction, shedding crucial new light on Magnes and highlighting his significance for our moment. I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone interested in Magnes, the history of Zionism and the Yishuv, and modern Jewish intellectual and religious history.”—Rabbi David Ellenson, chancellor emeritus, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion
“More than any previous scholar, Barak-Gorodetsky succeeds in unraveling the braided intellectual strands—American, liberal, and Jewish—that combined to shape Magnes’s binationalism and distinctive approach to Zionism.”—Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
“In this book, David Barak-Gorodetsky offers fascinating new perspective on Judah L. Magnes. Part Jeremiah, part Gandhi, and part Sisyphus, Magnes was an American in Palestine, a religious man in a political world, and an idealist among pragmatists. Barak-Gorodetsky’s superb excavation of Magnes’s roots in American theology opens our eyes to a much fuller portrait than has been offered before. One grasps Magnes’s animating sensibilities, as well as the discomfort he felt and generated in his transplanted home in Jerusalem. But generating discomfort was one of his goals, as he challenged the verities of Zionism with his prophetic voice, pointing to a different, moral standard as the ideal axis around which the national movement should revolve. A pathbreaking biography of an ever-intriguing and enigmatic figure.”—David N. Myers, professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, University of California, Los Angeles
“With this compelling biography, David Barak-Gorodetsky offers important revision to our understanding of Judah Magnes, rightly centering his religious fervor and idealism at the core of his politics.”—Pamela S. Nadell, author of America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Descriere
This intellectual biography of Judah Magnes—the Reform rabbi, American Zionist leader, and inaugural Hebrew University chancellor—analyzes how theology and politics intertwined to drive Magnes’s writings and activism, especially his championing of a binational state against all odds.