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The Invention of a Tradition
2023,2024
Overview
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 progenitor of
Zionism. Following the 1967 War in Israel, messianic sentiments
spread in some circles of the national-religious public in Israel,
who embraced this myth and made it a central component of the
historical narrative they advanced. For those who identified with
the religious Zionist enterprise, the myth of the Gaon and his
disciples as the first Zionists was seen as proof of the
righteousness of their path.
In this book, Israeli scholar Immanuel Etkes explores how what
he calls the \"Rivlinian myth\" took hold, and demonstrates that it
has no basis in historical reality. Etkes argues that proponents of
the Rivlinian myth seek to blur the distinction between Zionism as
a modern national movement or a religious one-a distinction that
underlies many of the central conflicts of contemporary Israeli
politics. As historian David Biale suggests in his brief foreword
to this English translation, \"what is at stake here is not only
historical truth but also the very identity of Zionism as a
nationalist movement.\"
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781503634534, 1503634531, 9781503637092, 1503637093
