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The Invention of a Tradition: The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna

The Invention of a Tradition: The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna

Etkes, Immanuel

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

JudaismGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1503634531
ISBN13: 9781503634534
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 31 2023
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

The Gaon of Vilna was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth-century Europe; his legacy is claimed by religious Jews, both Zionist and not. In the mid-twentieth century, Shlomo Zalman Rivlin wrote several books advancing the myth that the Gaon was an early progenitor of Zionism. Following the 1967 War in Israel, messianic sentiments spread in some circles of the national-religious public in Israel, who embraced this myth and made it a central component of the historical narrative they advanced. For those who identified with the religious Zionist enterprise, the myth of the Gaon and his disciples as the first Zionists was seen as proof of the righteousness of their path.

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