The Making of Modern Jewish Identity - 9780367135959

Taylor & Francis

The Making of Modern Jewish IdentityIdeological Change and Religious Conversion\nAuthor(s): Motti Inbari\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367135959, 978-0367135959\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish leaders rabbis, politicians, and intellectuals to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and Orthodoxy. Comparing their ideological change to acts of conversion, the study examines the philosophical, sociological, and psychological path of the leaders transformation. \n\nThe individuals examined are novelist Arthur Koestler, who transformed from a devout Communist to an anti-Communist crusader following the atrocities of the Stalin regime; Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine, who moved from the New Left to neoconservative, disillusioned by US liberal politics; Yissachar Shlomo Teichtel, who transformed from an ultra-Orthodox anti-Zio.