Table of Contents for The Invention of a Tradition

The Invention of a Tradition
The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna
Immanuel Etkes

Foreword by David Biale

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I The books Hazon Zion and Kol ha-Tor and the Rivlinian myth

1.Hazon Zion, a Messianic Zionist movement

2.The main ideas of Kol ha-Tor

3.Does Kol ha-Tor express a Messianic Zionist doctrine held by the Vilna Gaon

PART II The Vilna Gaon and his disciples as the first Zionists: The evolution of a myth

4.Why did the disciples of the Vilna Gaon immigrate to the Land of Israel?

5.How did the Rivlinian myth take form?

6.Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher's Ha-Tkufah ha-Gdolah

7.The academic version of the Rivlinian myth

8.Did Shlomo Zalman Rivlin receive the text of Kol ha-Tor from Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin?

PART III Additional writings by Shlomo Zalman Rivlin

9.Mossad ha-Yesod: The Old Yishuv recast as the beginnings of Zionism

10.Midrash Shlomo and the Department for Training Young Orators

11.Ha-Maggid Doresh Zion: Rabbi Moshe Rivlin as a "Zionist" leader

12.Sefer ha-Pizmonim: Yosef Yosha Rivlin as a "Messianic Zionist visionary

PART IV The creation of Kol ha-Tor

13.Who was the author of Kol ha-Tor?

14.Shlomo Zalman Rivlin: The man and his literary motives

15.The embrace of the Rivlinian myth and Kol ha-Tor in Religious Zionist circles

Conclusion

Appendix: Rivlin family members

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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