1st Edition
Religious Zionism and the Six Day War From Realism to Messianism
Introduction 1. Six Days that Split Generations: War and Values 2. Real History and Sacred History 3. The Body and Messianism Epilogue
Biography
Avi Sagi is a professor of philosophy at Bar-Ilan University and founder of its Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies. He has written and edited many books and articles in philosophy, and his research interests include phenomenology and existentialism, hermeneutics, the religion-morality relationship, Jewish philosophy, and critical theory.
Dov Schwartz was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Bar-Ilan University and head of its Departments of Philosophy and of Music, and currently heads the Departments of Philosophy. He has published extensively on medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, and his current research interests include religious-Zionism and sixteenth century Jewish thought.
"Religious Zionism and the Six-Day War is a much-welcomed contribution to the study of Israeli society and history. It details how a change occurred in the ideology of religious Zionism that pushed it to political activism motivated by right-wing and messianic belief, moving it into the front lines of the leadership in modern and contemporary Israel. Although the rise of Gush Emunim has been already the subject of much previous research, the strength of the book lies in its detailed analysis of this transformation, and the "before and after" comparison."
Motti Inbari for H-Net Reviews, July 2019
"The book offers some important contributions. Primarily, the authors’ decision not to focus exclusively on Gush Emunim and the settlement movement illuminates some frequently overlooked aspects of the impact of the war, such as the discourse on sexuality and tsni‘ut (modesty). Moreover, the authors’ status as witnesses to the processes as they were unfolding leads to a more personalized account of the revolution."
Hayim Katsman for University of Washington, Autumn 2019
