Why they turns radical?
Why they turns radical?
In the 60's,young Jews were more likely than non-Jews to support the radical movement of the new left.
Since enlightenment , the left has attracted Jews ,especially young Jews.
Explanations given to the certain element of Jewish culture.
One variant of the cultural explanations stresses messianism,another stresses Jewish ideas of justice and a third stressed Jewish idea of equality.
1.The messianic variant
In it best know and by now most hackneyed form,states that Jew in?diaspora were able to tolerate the conditions of their "exile"only because of their belief in
the redemption of the Jewish people and in the coming of the messiah as part of that redemption.
according to this view, both the cultural tenacity of Judaism and the collective survival of Jewry is?in explainable . without reference to this belief , for, without it,Jews would have solved the problems of harassment , persecution and stigmatization by adopting Christianity or Islam , in order to cease being recognized as Jews.
Because of the fundamental significance of this messianic belief, Jews who were partly assimilated were drawn to left-wing radical ideologies which gave to them a secular, rational-empirical version of the older,religious ideas. These ideologies offer beliefs in the historical process and in the ultimate attainment of? socialist utopia; and these replace beliefs in the chosen people, in Divine Providence, in Redemption and the return to Zion. This hypothesis not only explains why Jews who adhered to orthodoxy were not attracted to it. It even explains why the fulfilment of the Zionist dream-semi-secularized version of the original millenarian belief has been accompanied by a decline in the appeal of the socialist dream.
3.?The third cultural hypothesis suggests that Judaism more than any other great religion, favors egalitarianism. this being so,enlightened Jews are prone
to retain from Judaism their strong commitment to equality and are therefore attracted to left-wing radicalism.?
while a christian sense of justice and injustice might be accompanied by an acceptance of ,or a resignation to the wrongs of this world, a Jewish sese would be accompanied by a compulsion to correct injustice and to impalement justice in this world.
when (19th century onward)they have political rights, they supported the left.
Red diapers theory
Four propositions:
1. young jews were more likely than non-Jews to have parents who had been either liberal or radicals.
2.children of the liberals and radicals tend to adopt their parents' concern for welfare and the rights of others.
3. children believe that their rebellion is condoned or even encouraged by their parents.
children wish to compete with their parents thus turn to radicalism.
4. children wish ,perhaps unconsciously to outdistance their parents in their actions and belief , demonstrate to their parents how they failed to live up to
the principles which they have transmitted to their children.
In the 60's,young Jews were more likely than non-Jews to support the radical movement of the new left.
Since enlightenment , the left has attracted Jews ,especially young Jews.
Explanations given to the certain element of Jewish culture.
One variant of the cultural explanations stresses messianism,another stresses Jewish ideas of justice and a third stressed Jewish idea of equality.
1.The messianic variant
In it best know and by now most hackneyed form,states that Jew in?diaspora were able to tolerate the conditions of their "exile"only because of their belief in
the redemption of the Jewish people and in the coming of the messiah as part of that redemption.
according to this view, both the cultural tenacity of Judaism and the collective survival of Jewry is?in explainable . without reference to this belief , for, without it,Jews would have solved the problems of harassment , persecution and stigmatization by adopting Christianity or Islam , in order to cease being recognized as Jews.
Because of the fundamental significance of this messianic belief, Jews who were partly assimilated were drawn to left-wing radical ideologies which gave to them a secular, rational-empirical version of the older,religious ideas. These ideologies offer beliefs in the historical process and in the ultimate attainment of? socialist utopia; and these replace beliefs in the chosen people, in Divine Providence, in Redemption and the return to Zion. This hypothesis not only explains why Jews who adhered to orthodoxy were not attracted to it. It even explains why the fulfilment of the Zionist dream-semi-secularized version of the original millenarian belief has been accompanied by a decline in the appeal of the socialist dream.
3.?The third cultural hypothesis suggests that Judaism more than any other great religion, favors egalitarianism. this being so,enlightened Jews are prone
to retain from Judaism their strong commitment to equality and are therefore attracted to left-wing radicalism.?
while a christian sense of justice and injustice might be accompanied by an acceptance of ,or a resignation to the wrongs of this world, a Jewish sese would be accompanied by a compulsion to correct injustice and to impalement justice in this world.
when (19th century onward)they have political rights, they supported the left.
Red diapers theory
Four propositions:
1. young jews were more likely than non-Jews to have parents who had been either liberal or radicals.
2.children of the liberals and radicals tend to adopt their parents' concern for welfare and the rights of others.
3. children believe that their rebellion is condoned or even encouraged by their parents.
children wish to compete with their parents thus turn to radicalism.
4. children wish ,perhaps unconsciously to outdistance their parents in their actions and belief , demonstrate to their parents how they failed to live up to
the principles which they have transmitted to their children.
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