Jewish Radicalisms. Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity

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Table of Contents Introduction. Thoughts on Jewish Radicalism as a Phenomenon of Global Modernity Section I. Political Radicalisms Pathways of Early Post-Zionism Revolutionary Fascist or Fascist Revolutionary. Abba Ahimeir and the Success of Revolutionary Zionism The Radical (Re‐)Interpretation of Jewish Class and Nation. Poale Zion and the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 The Settler, the Native and the Communist. Nationalism, Colonialism, and Imperialism in Moshe Sneh’s and Emil Touma’s Ideology, 1953–1973 Radical Trinity. Anarchist, Jew, or New Yorker? Jewish Radicalism as a Liminal Space. HaShomer haTza’ir between Zionism and the New Left, 1967–1973 Section II. Religious Radicalisms Psychedelic Judaism in a Countercultural America. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and the Radical Religiosity of LSD Consciousness Nihilism and Extremist Religious Education in Contemporary Israel. The King’s Torah and its Discontents Reactions Towards Jewish Radicalism. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg and Religious Zionism Religious Radicalism, the Zionist Right, and the Establishment of the State of Israel Section III: Cultural Radicalisms Education, Citizenship, Social Justice. Janusz Korczak and Jewish Community Action in Warsaw at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Mel Brooks’ Subversive Cabaret. The Producers (1968) The Cultural Heretic Gustav. Landauer as a Radical Writer Jewish Radicalism as Radical Diversity? Radical Thought in Jewish Perspectives on the Jewish Question in early Nineteenth Century Germany Contributors Index