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The Making of Modern Jewish Identity - Ideological Change and Religious Conversion (Paperback)
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The Making of Modern Jewish Identity - Ideological Change and Religious Conversion (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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This volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish
leaders - rabbis, politicians, and intellectuals - to make radical
changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and
Orthodoxy. Comparing their ideological change to acts of
conversion, the study examines the philosophical, sociological, and
psychological path of the leaders' transformation. The individuals
examined are novelist Arthur Koestler, who transformed from a
devout Communist to an anti-Communist crusader following the
atrocities of the Stalin regime; Norman Podhoretz, editor of
Commentary magazine, who moved from the New Left to
neoconservative, disillusioned by US liberal politics; Yissachar
Shlomo Teichtel, who transformed from an ultra-Orthodox
anti-Zionist Hungarian rabbi to messianic Religious-Zionist due to
the events of the Holocaust; Ruth Ben-David, who converted to
Judaism after the Second World War in France because of her
sympathy with Zionism, eventually becoming a radical anti-Israeli
advocate; Haim Herman Cohn, Israeli Supreme Court justice, who grew
up as a non-Zionist Orthodox Jew in Germany, later renouncing his
belief in God due to the events of the Holocaust; and Avraham
(Avrum) Burg, prominent centrist Israeli politician who served as
the Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency, who later
became a post-Zionist. Comparing aspects of modern politics to
religion, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad
range of areas including modern Jewish studies, sociology of
religion, and political science.
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