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This work in the field of intellectual history explores religious ideas which emerged in Jewish thought under the influence of secular ideologies, and in response to the social and cultural realities created by Jewish Emancipation, Zionism, and socialism. By concentrating on the major Jewish Orthodox modernizing movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Dr. Fishman examines the innovative mechanisms of traditional Judaism that were activated by these movements, as they strove to accommodate new realities. In his sociological analysis of the interplay between religion and ideology in the Orthodox innovators' building of their new religious systems, Fishman breaks new theoretical ground. The study focuses specifically on the Religious Kibbutz Federation in Israel, which developed a religious sub-culture that incorporated the central values of Jewish nationalism and socialism. The author shows that the self-contained pioneering settlements of the RKF--embodying as they do an operational synthesis of modern, and traditional Jewish, cultures--may be regarded as a test case for the measure of the capacity of historic Judaism to adapt to modern life at a community level.

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Author

Aryei Fishman

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521403887

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Judaism