Jody Myers. Seeking Zion: Modernity and Messianic Activism in the Writings of Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003. xiv, 256 pp.
The religious thought of Rabbi Tsevi Hirsch Kalischer seems a promising starting point for a study of messianism in the Jewish encounter with modernity. Kalischer himself stood at the vortex of dramatic changes that were transforming Jewish life in the mid-nineteenth century. He lived on the seam li...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2005
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AJS review
Year: 2005, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 186-188 |
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