Hastening redemption [electronic resource] : Messianism and the resettlement of the land of Israel / Arie Morgenstern ; translated by Joel A. Linsider.
Language: English Original language: Hebrew Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 284 p.)ISBN:- 0195305787
- Meshi�hiyut �ve-yishuv Erets Yi�sra�el. English
- 296.336 22
- BM615

Translated from the Hebrew.
Arie Morgenstern argues the roots of modern Zionism go back to a group of messianic Jews in the early 1800s. Morgenstern shows how the belief in the messianic modern significance of the year 1940 spurred immigration to Israel by Jews from all over the world.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.