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Overview"The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival 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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shaul MagidPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691179339ISBN 10: 0691179336 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 12 October 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsEnlightening and accessible . . . a nuanced and eye-opening portrait of an overlooked figure in Jewish political history. * Publishers Weekly * [an] important and insightful new book ---David N. Myers, Los Angeles Review of Books Shaul Magid's excellent book is not a guide to opposing the world-view of Kahane. It is a rich resource for understanding how deeply this world-view is rooted in the two centres of modern Judaism: the American Jewish community and Israel. And understanding opens the door for tikkun, or repair. ---Uri Dromi, Times Literary Supplement [an] excellent biography...which presents provocative arguments aimed at reassessing the Kahane phenomenon. ---Itamar Ben Ami, Haaretz According to a new biography by scholar Shaul Magid, Kahane represented the underbelly not only of American Orthodoxy, but of American Jewry writ large. In Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical Magid...invites all mainstream American Jewish institutions to grapple with their role in creating Kahane and perpetuating his ideas today. ---Hadas Binyamini, +972 Magazine Enlightening and accessible . . . a nuanced and eye-opening portrait of an overlooked figure in Jewish political history. * Publishers Weekly * [an] important and insightful new book ---David N. Myers, Los Angeles Review of Books Shaul Magid's excellent book is not a guide to opposing the world-view of Kahane. It is a rich resource for understanding how deeply this world-view is rooted in the two centres of modern Judaism: the American Jewish community and Israel. And understanding opens the door for tikkun, or repair. ---Uri Dromi, Times Literary Supplement [an] excellent biography...which presents provocative arguments aimed at reassessing the Kahane phenomenon. ---Itamar Ben Ami, Haaretz According to a new biography by scholar Shaul Magid, Kahane represented the underbelly not only of American Orthodoxy, but of American Jewry writ large. In Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical Magid...invites all mainstream American Jewish institutions to grapple with their role in creating Kahane and perpetuating his ideas today. ---Hadas Binyamini, +972 Magazine Magid's fascinating book is important in sharpening our understanding regarding the sea change and extremism that has taken place in Israeli society and politics from the 1980s to the twenty-first century. ---Avi Shilon, Israel Studies Review Enlightening and accessible . . . a nuanced and eye-opening portrait of an overlooked figure in Jewish political history. * Publishers Weekly * Author InformationShaul Magid is Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. His many books include American Post-Judaism, Hasidism Incarnate, and From Metaphysics to Midrash. 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