Vision and Covenant | Gateway 5: Early Modern Times

Introduction

*The Age of Great Scientific and Social Revolutions

Heaven: Introduction

*The French Revolution – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

*Speech on the Jews – Henri Baptist Gregoire

Of Labor and Love

A New View of Society – Robert Owen

Essays for a New Political System – Saint Simon

Looking Backward, 2000-1887 – E. Bellamy

*Looking Forward – Michaelis

The Ideal Society

*The Communist Manifesto – Marx/ Engels

*The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science – Friedrich Engels

The Super Man

Thus Spake Zarathustra/ Beyond Good and Evil / *Daybreak – Friedrich Nietzsche

Hell: Introduction

*Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

*The Trial/ Messiah – Franz Kafka

*1984 – George Orwell

Exile of the Heart

Civilization and Its Discontents/ *Moses – Sigmund Freud

*Psychology and Religion – C. J. Jung

Escape from Freedom – Erich Fromm

Walden Two – B. F. Skinner

Herzog – Saul Bellow

The Myth of Eternal Return – Mircea Eliade

The End of Utopia, or: Being and the Unconscious

*Eros and Civilization / *The End of Utopia – Herbert Marcuse

Minima Moralia – Theodor Adorno

*The Principle of Hope – Ernst Bloch

Ideology and Utopia – Karl Mannheim

Women’s Liberation

*Cyborg Manifesto – Donna Haraway

*Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

*The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

*Israel, a Palace in Space – Bonna Devora Haberman

*Gender in Utopianism: The Zionist Case – Rachel Elboim-Dror

Critique of Utopia

*Open Society and Its Enemies – Karl Popper

*The Postmodern Condition - Jean François Lyotard

Part II: Vision Becomes Reality – The Homeland (1789 to the present day)

Introduction

On the Era of Zionism and the Return to Zion – Prof. Joseph Agassi

A Voice Calls Out

Zionism: Treasury of Political Documents

*Guide to the Perplexed of Our Time – Nachman Krochmal

Rome and Jerusalem – Moses Hess

*Auto-Emancipation – Leo Pinsker

*On the Revival of Israel – Moses Lilienblum

*Jewish Redemption in Palestine – Zvi Hirsch Kalischer

*Returning as Repenting – Yehudah Alkalai

*Awake My People/ At Daybreak – Judah Leib Gordon

Utopia and Utopists – Joseph Chaim Brenner

Socialism and Tikkun Ha-Olam

*Reflections – A. D. Gordon

The Jewish Problem and the Socialist-Jewish State – Nachman Syrkin

A Light UntoThe Nations

*Reform Tikkun and the Messianic Idea – Abraham Geiger

The Messiah Who Will Not Come – Pittsburgh Platform/ Columbus Platform/ San Francisco Platform/ Miami Platform

The Messiah Approaches

*Lights of Revival /*Vision of Redemption – Abraham Isaac Kook

State and Halacha – Meir Bar Ilan (Berlin)

*And Thou Shalt Spread Abroad – The Lubavitcher Rebbe

Rebellion and National Revival

*Contradiction and Construction/ *Hypocrites – Micah Joseph Berdichevski

Palestine Royal Commission: Minutes of Evidence / The Iron Wall / Shir Betar – Vladimir Jabotinsky

Revival of the Spirit

*The Wrong Way/ *Torah of the Heart – Ahad Ha’Am

*With the Spirit / *It Is Time to Plant – Peretz Smolenskin

Zionist Utopias

*Journey to the Land of Israel in the Year 2040 – Elhanan Lewinsky

*Madmen – Sholom Aleichem

*The First Jewish Utopias – Miriam Eliav-Feldon

Vision and Reality

The Jewish State/ *Diaries / Impressions from the First Zionist Congress – Theodor Herzl

The First Zionist Congress

On Herzl – Jacob Klatzkin

The Condition of the Jewish People – Max Nordau

*On the History of the Israeli Flag and Anthem – Asa Kasher

Renewing the Covenant

*Torah and Earthly Matters - Shimshon Raphael Hirsch

*Lonely Man of Faith – Joseph Dov Halevi Soloveitchik

*Tikkun of the Covenant – Mordecai Kaplan

*God In Search of Man/ *Israel: an Echo of Eternity – Abraham Joshua Heschel

*The Problem of Judaism in America – Israel Friedlaender

*Israel: The Ever-Dying People – Simon Rawidowicz

The Sh’ma Yisrael prayer

Peace and Redemption

Letter to an Arab / To Sigmund Freud / On Scientific Truth / Paradise Lost – Albert Einstein

*To Albert Einstein – Sigmund Freud

*The Star of Redemption – Franz Rosenzweig

On the Star of Redemption – Hugo Bergman

The Approaching War; The Jewish Problem – Karl Popper

*Towards an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism – Gershom Scholem

*Messianic Mystics – Moshe Idel

Paths in Utopia/ A Land of Two Peoples – Martin Buber

Brith Shalom

*Messiah – Yeshayahu Leibowitz

*Emmanuel Levinas

Vision and Action

*The Balfour Declaration – Word and Deed / Chaim Weizmann

The Abyss: Reflections of a Holocaust

Night – Elie Wiesel

*The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz – Emil Fackenheim

Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl

*If This is a Man – Primo Levi

Realizing the Vision: The State of Israel

The Declaration of Independence

*Ben Gurion

Covenant and Vision

Ketubah: A Marriage Covenant

*The Return to Eden – Shalom Rosenberg

*These Are the Words of the Covenant – Chaim Hirschenson

The Covenant as the Basis of the Jewish Political Tradition – Daniel J. Elazar

*Israel As a Jewish Democratic State – Eliezer Schweid

*Living Zionism – Asa Kasher

The Kinneret Declaration

Songs of a New Land

*Only Yesterday – S.Y. Agnon

And When the Days Grow Long / The Dead of the Desert / *The Scroll of Fire – Chaim Nachman Bialik

*Perhaps Things Never Were/ Only of Myself – Rachel Blaustein

*Massada / *The Pact Between the Halves – Yitzchak Lamdan

*The Seventh Column – Nathan Alterman

*Stones of Void – Avraham Shlonsky

*Of Four Sons / My Beloved country – Leah Goldberg

*Now and In Other Days/ Behind All This Some Great Happiness Is Hiding – Yehuda Amichai

*Mold and Landscape – Nathan Zach

*Love of a Golden Apple – Dalia Rabikowitz

*A Call: Go Forth!/ *Awakening / I Shall Tell It to a Child – Uri Zvi Greenberg

*Black Canopy – Yonatan Ratosh

*Upon the Borders – Massa-Erev / Benjamin Radler

*The Sermon – Haim Hazaz

*Dreaming Child – Hanoch Levin

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