Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Kalischer: Zionism as a Response to Modernity

Rabbi Mintz on Jewish History - Glimpses into the religious Lives of Early Modern European Jewry

Rabbi Kalsicher served a rabbi in a small town in Prussia in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the founder of modern active messianism as expressed in the desire to renew sacrifices thereby leading to the bringing of the Messiah. This lecture will explore the origins of this philosophy and the reactions to his activity. How was this debate a reaction to the challenges of modernity during this period?