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Safed, Zionist Culture, and Jewish History

Toward a New Historical Perspective

Av Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

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Brings the legacy of sixteenth-century Safed into modern scholarship on Zionism to propose a new model of Jewish existence.Sixteenth-century Safed was one of the most important centers of thought and learning in Jewish history, yet Zionist historical narratives, which emphasize the continuity of Jewish presence in Palestine, have consistently downplayed or ignored it. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin investigates this strange contradiction. His new book argues that Safed articulates a model of early modern Jewish national revival, one closely connected to the land and its material geography, yet radically different from the Zionist model that emerged in the late nineteenth century. While Zionism set out to restore Biblical Jewish sovereignty, rabbinic Safed’s emphasis on the Mishnah proposed a non-sovereign Jewish connection to the land.As much a polemic as a historical and theological analysis, Safed, Zionist Culture, and Jewish History offers a provocative new perspective on questions related to nationalism, Judaism, and Israel.
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Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His books include The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century and Exil et souveraineté: judaïsme, sionisme et pensée binationale.

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“Raz-Krakotzkin is one of the most creative and iconoclastic Jewish historians of our times. Fittingly, Safed, Zionist Culture, and Jewish History offers a bold new account of the Jewish past that recenters Safed as one of the great sites of Jewish cultural creativity. But Raz-Krakotzkin’s Safed is different from that of Scholem or Schechter. It defies facile dichotomies between tradition and modernity, east and west, and religious and secular. In fact, what Raz-Krakotzkin offers in this book is not only a brilliant new reading of the center of Jewish mysticism in the sixteenth century but a new epistemological lens through which to view history—and particularly Jewish history beyond the grip of a hegemonic Zionist reading.”

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