Hayyim Rothman 
No masters but God 
Portraits of anarcho-Judaism

The forgotten legacy of religious Jewish anarchism, and the adventures and ideas of its key figures, finally comes to light in this book. Set in the decades surrounding both world wars,
No masters but God identifies a loosely connected group of rabbis and traditionalist thinkers who explicitly appealed to anarchist ideas in articulating the meaning of the Torah, traditional practice, Jewish life and the mission of modern Jewry. Full of archival discoveries and first translations from Yiddish and Hebrew, it explores anarcho-Judaism in its variety through the works of Yaakov Meir Zalkind, Yitshak Nahman Steinberg, Yehudah Leyb Don-Yahiya, Avraham Yehudah Heyn, Natan Hofshi, Shmuel Alexandrov, Yehudah Ashlag and Aaron Shmuel Tamaret. With this ground-breaking account, Hayyim Rothman traces a complicated story about the modern entanglement of religion and anarchism, pacifism and Zionism, prophetic anti-authoritarianism and mystical antinomianism.

Table des matières

1 An anarchist minyan 2 Historical and theological context Part I: The activists 3 Yaakov Meir Zalkind (1875–1938) 4 Yitshak Nahman Steinberg (1888–1957) Part II: The mystics 5 Shmuel Alexandrov (1865–1941) 6 Yehuda Ashlag (1885–1954) Part III: The pacifists 7 Yehuda-Leyb Don-Yahiya (1869–1941) 8 Avraham Yehudah Heyn (1880–1957) 9 Natan Hofshi (1890–1980) 10 Aaron-Shmuel Tamaret (1869–1931) Conclusion: Contemporary relevance Index

A propos de l’auteur

Hayyim Rothman is a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Bar Ilan University, Israel