Hastening redemption [electronic resource] : Messianism and the resettlement of the land of Israel / Arie Morgenstern ; translated by Joel A. Linsider.
Language: English Original language: Hebrew Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: x, 284 p. ; 24 cmUniform titles:- Meshiḥiyut ṿe-yishuv Erets Yiśraʼel. English
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Translated from the Hebrew.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.
chap. 1. Background of the early-nineteenth-century messianic awakening -- chap. 2. Belief in 5600 (1840) as the year of redemption -- chap. 3. Immigration to the land of Israel, 1808-1840 -- chap. 4. Process of redemption envisioned by the Vilna Ga'on's disciples -- chap. 5. Attempt to renew rabbinic ordination in Safed -- chap. 6. "Raising the shekhinah from the dust" by rebuilding Jerusalem -- chap. 7. Expanding and solidifying Jewish settlement in the land of Israel -- chap. 8. Crisis of faith in the wake of unfulfilled expectations -- chap. 9. Retreat from the idea of "redemption through return to Zion" -- Epilogue. Emergence of a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.
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