Shaul Magid

The Necessity of Exile

Essays from a Distance

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Produktbeschreibung

"A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile. In The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, celebrated rabbi and scholar Shaul Magid offers an essential contribution to this intergenerational process, inviting us to rethink our current moment through religious and political resources from the Jewish tradition."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ayin Press
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 138mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9798986780313
• Artikelnr.: 68330701

Autorenporträt

Shaul Magid is Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, and rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue. He works on Jewish thought and culture from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the Jewish mystical and philosophical tradition. Author of numerous books, his most recent work is Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (Princeton University Press, 2021). He writes regularly for Religion Dispatches, +972, and other topical journals. Magid is an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the American Society for the Study of Religion, and lives in Thetford, Vermont.