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Book SynopsisThe Essential Hayim Greenberg is a landmark collection of essays by Hayim Greenberg, a founder of the Labor Zionist movement in America and a foremost writer, thinker, and activist in the fields of twentieth-century Jewish culture and politics.
Trade Review“Mark A. Raider’s book is a thoughtful collection of Hayim Greenberg’s spiritual and ideological, national and universal worldview as one of the most original Zionist thinkers, who promoted the theory of a balanced double Jewish collective existence as an exile (
galut) people, even in free countries, and as a national entity in their historical land, the State of Israel.”
—Yosef Gorny, author of
The State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity|“By framing the life of Hayim Greenberg through a brilliant introduction and then gathering the works of Greenberg together, Mark A. Raider has performed the singular service of bringing one of the most thoughtful and engaged public Jewish intellectuals and Zionist thinkers of the twentieth century back to life. This is a critical volume for anyone interested in modern Jewish and Zionist intellectual history and thought as well as Israel-Diaspora Jewish relations. Scholars and activists alike are indebted to Raider for this book.”
—David Ellenson, author of
Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice: Studies in Tradition and Modernity and
After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity
