Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz
Cambridge University Press, 6/25/1992
EAN 9780521403887, ISBN10: 052140388X
Hardcover, 218 pages, 23.5 x 16.1 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
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 movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Fishman examines the innovative mechanisms of traditional Judaism that were activated by these movements, as they strove to accommodate new realities. The study focuses specifically on the Religious Kibbutz Federation in Israel, which (in the process of building its self-contained pioneering settlements) developed a religious sub-culture that incorporated the central values of Jewish nationalism and socialism. Professor Fishman shows that - by creating the most far-reaching synthesis of modern, and traditional Jewish, culture at the community level - the settlements of the RKF may be regarded as a test case for the measure of the capacity of Judaism to adapt to modern life.
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Prologue
1. Conceptual and historical background
Part II. The Parent Orthodox Modernizing Movements
2. Torah-im-Derekh Eretz
3. Religious Zionism
Part III. The Religious Kibbutz Movement
4. The foundations of the Religious Kibbutz Movement
5. Charisma and rationalization
6. The halakhic-socialist collective
7. The confrontation between halakhah and external reality
8. Between heteronomous and autonomous authority
Afterword
Appendices
Notes
Index.