How jewish orthodoxy became a state: isaac breuer and the invention of the statist theocracy

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Identifying Breuer as the first thinker to introduce statist theocracy into Orthodox Jewish thought helps illuminate the ultra-Orthodox8 origins of this doctrine and more specifically, the non- and anti-Zionist characteristics of the demand to establish a religious, sovereign state. Positing Breuer as the originator of statist Orthodoxy and thereby excavating the ultra-Orthodox origins of this doctrine is essential for a clearer analytical evaluation of this form of political Judaism. I discuss Breuer`s novel rendition of German neo-Orthodoxy through a small but significant conceptual transformation: instead of identifying Orthodox Judaism . . .

 



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