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The Life and Thought of Ze'ev Jawitz - "To Cultivate a Hebrew Culture" (Hardcover)
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The Life and Thought of Ze'ev Jawitz - "To Cultivate a Hebrew Culture" (Hardcover)
Series: Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
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Ze'ev Jawitz (1847-1924) was one of the foremost intellectuals of
the First Aliyah and a leader of the religious faction within the
Hibbat Zion movement. During his life he experienced the transition
from living in the Diaspora to settling in the homeland, and he
faced complex problems along with rare opportunities. Jawitz sought
to adapt Orthodox Judaism to the changing reality in the Land of
Israel by blending it with the nascent Jewish nationalism. He
engaged in most facets of the Hebrew culture of his time, including
history, literature, philosophy, biblical exegesis, linguistics,
opinion writing, and even politics. He did all this out of an
understanding that a people returning to its land needs a broad
culture and cannot remain confined to the limits of halakha (Jewish
law). This biography is based on rich archival material, most of
which has never before been published. It moves along two axes:
historically, it follows Jawitz's life through the places where he
lived - Warsaw, Yehud, Zikhron Yaakov, Jerusalem, Vilna, Berlin,
Antwerp and London; and intellectually, it analyzes Jawitz's
literary and philosophical work against the backdrop of his time.
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