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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Magid, Shaul, 1958- author.     Subjects     Kahane, Meir.     Kach International.     Jewish Defense League.     Political activists -- Israel -- Biography.     Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Rabbis -- Israel -- Biography.     Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Magid, Shaul, 1958- author.       by title:      Meir Kahane : the pu...         MARC Display

Meir Kahane : the public life and political thought of an American Jewish radical / Shaul Magid. by Magid, Shaul, 1958- author. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021] Subjects Kahane, Meir.   Kach International.   Jewish Defense League.   Political activists -- Israel -- Biography.   Rabbis -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Rabbis -- Israel -- Biography.   Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography. ISBN:  0691179336 9780691179339 (hardback) : Description:  xiii, 276 pages ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968, declaring that Jews must protect themselves by any means necessary. He immigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded KACH, an ultranationalist and racist political party. He would die by assassination in 1990. Shaul Magid provides an in-depth look at this controversial figure, showing how the postwar American experience shaped his life and political thought. Magid sheds new light on Kahane's radical political views, his critique of liberalism, and his use of the "grammar of race" as a tool to promote Jewish pride. He discusses Kahane's theory of violence as a mechanism to assure Jewish safety, and traces how his Zionism evolved from a fervent support of Israel to a belief that the Zionist project had failed. Magid examines how tradition and classical Jewish texts profoundly influenced Kahane's thought later in life, and argues that Kahane's enduring legacy lies not in his Israeli career but in the challenge he posed to the liberalism and assimilatory project of the postwar American Jewish establishment. This incisive book shows how Kahane was a quintessentially American figure, one who adopted the radicalism of the militant Left as a tenet of Jewish survival. -- book jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 320.95694 Ma   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 320.95694 Ma Katz Collection Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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