Hastening redemption
Subtitle: Messianism and the resettlement of the land of Israel
By: Arie Morgenstern ; translated by Joel A. Linsider.
Contributors: Linsider, Joel A.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780195305784
Subjects: Jewish messianic movements; Judaism -- Palestine -- History -- 19th century; Jews -- Palestine -- History -- 19th century; Palestine -- History -- 1799-1917
Description: Arie Morgenstern argues the roots of modern Zionism go back to a group of messianic Jews in the early 1800s. Morgenstern shows how the belief in the messianic modern significance of the year 1940 spurred immigration to Israel by Jews from all over the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: chap. 1. The background of the early-nineteenth-century messianic awakening; title: chap. 2. Belief in 5600 (1840) as the year of redemption; title: chap. 3. Immigration to the land of Israel, 1808-1840; title: chap. 4. The process of redemption envisioned by the Vilna Gaon's disciples; title: chap. 5. The attempt to renew rabbinic ordination in Safed; title: chap. 6. "Raising the shekhinah from the dust" by rebuilding Jerusalem; title: chap. 7. Expanding ad solidifying Jewish settlement in the land of Israel; title: chap. 8. The crisis of faith in the wake of unfulfilled expectations for redemption in 5600 (1840); title: chap. 9. Retreat from the idea of "redemption through return to Zion"; title: Epilogue. 5600 (1840)-the emergence of a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.