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Orthodox Judaism and the Politics of Religion - From Prewar Europe to the State of Israel (Hardcover)
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Orthodox Judaism and the Politics of Religion - From Prewar Europe to the State of Israel (Hardcover)
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During the first half of the twentieth century, nationalizing
processes in Europe and Palestine reshaped observant Jewry into two
distinct societies, ultra-Orthodoxy and national-religious Judaism.
Tracing the dynamics between the two most influential Orthodox
political movements of the period, from their early years through
the founding of the State of Israel, Daniel Mahla examines the
crucial role that religio-political entrepreneurs played in these
developments. He frames the contest between non-Zionist Agudat
Yisrael and religious-Zionist Mizrahi as the product of
wide-ranging social and cultural struggles within Orthodox Judaism
and demonstrates that at the core of their conflict lay deep
tensions between rabbinic authority and political activism. While
Orthodoxy's encounter with modern Jewish nationalism is often cast
as a confrontation between religious and secular forces, this book
highlights the significance of intra-religious competition for
observant Jewry's transition to the age of the nation state and
beyond.
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