Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Kalischer: Zionism as a Response to Modernity
Rabbi Kalsicher served a rabbi in a small town in Prussia in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the founder of modern active messianism as expressed in the desire to renew sacrifices thereby leading to the bringing of the Messiah. This lecture will explore the origins of this philosophy and the reactions to his activity. How was this debate a reaction to the challenges of modernity during this period?
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LECTURE SERIES
- A Study of Halachic and Cultural Responses to Jewish Crisis and Tragedy
- American Jewish Translations of the Torah
- Biblical Studies
- Court Jews: Jews and Judaism on Trial Throughout the Centuries
- Crime: Does It pay?
- Development of Jewish Law
- Glimpses into the religious Lives of Early Modern European Jewry
- Halakhah in the Post-Shulhan Arukh Period
- History and Theology: The Thirteen Principles of Rambam
- History of the Yeshivot in LIthuania
- How Did the Rabbis of Early Modern Times Interpret the Bible?
- Jewish History
- Jewish Theology
- Jews and Hollywood
- Jews and Hollywood: Part II
- Judaism Confronts Modernity: Jewish Experiences in the Nineteenth Century
- Medieval Biblical Commentators Respond to the Torah and Their Surroundings
- Prayer
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Rabbinic Narratives
- Rabbinical Semiaries in America
- Survey
- West Side Stories
- Yeshivot in the Land of Israel
