The invention of a tradition : the Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Saadya Sternberg ; with a foreword by David Biale.
"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, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin wrote several books advancing the myth that the Gaon was an early progeni...
| Uniform Title: | Tsiyonut ha-meshiḥit shel ha-Gaʼon mi-Ṿilnah.
English Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. |
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| Language: | English |
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Hebrew |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Physical Description: | ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- "Hazon Zion" : a Messianic-Zionist movement
- The main ideas of Kol ha-tor
- Does Kol ha-tor express a Messianic-Zionist doctrine held by the Vilna Gaon?
- Why did the disciples of the Gaon of Vilna immigrate to the Land of Israel?
- How did the Rivlinian myth take form?
- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher's The great era
- The academic version of the Rivlinian myth
- Did Shlomo Zalman Rivlin receive the text of Kol ha-tor from Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin?
- Mossad ha-yesod : the Old Yishuv recast as the beginnings of Zionism
- Midrash Shlomo, and The Department for Training Young Orators
- Ha-Maggid doresh Zion : Rabbi Moshe Rivlin as a 'Zionist' leader
- Sefer ha-pizmonim : Yosef Yosha Rivlin as 'Messianic-Zionist visionary'
- Who was the author of Kol ha-tor?
- Shlomo Zalman Rivlin : the man and his literary motives
- The embrace of the Rivlinian myth and Kol ha-tor in religious-Zionist circles.