Hastening redemption : Messianism and the resettlement of the land of Israel /
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Author / Creator: | Morgenstern, Arie. |
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Uniform title: | Meshiḥiyut ṿe-yishuv Erets Yiśraơel. English |
Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
Description: | x, 284 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Oxford scholarship online. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6003080 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Background of the early-nineteenth-century messianic awakening
- 2. Belief in 5600 (1840) as the year of redemption
- 3. Immigration to the land of Israel, 1808-1840
- 4. Process of redemption envisioned by the Vilna Ga'on's disciples
- 5. Attempt to renew rabbinic ordination in Safed
- 6. "Raising the Shekhinah from the dust" by rebuilding Jerusalem
- 7. Expanding and solidifying Jewish settlement in the land of Israel
- 8. Crisis of faith in the wake of unfulfilled expectations
- 9. Retreat from the idea of "redemption through return to Zion"
- Epilogue : emergence of a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.