
Published online:
31 October 2013
Published in print:
11 August 2003
Online ISBN:
9780300129298
Print ISBN:
9780300092936
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The Wager as a Form of Faith The Wager as a Form of Faith
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The Wager in Jewish History The Wager in Jewish History
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The “Ever-Dying” People The “Ever-Dying” People
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Brenner's “Nevertheless” Brenner's “Nevertheless”
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The Pioneering Impetus: Despair and Faith The Pioneering Impetus: Despair and Faith
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Forces of Repulsion and Attraction Forces of Repulsion and Attraction
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A Final Card: The Sole Solution A Final Card: The Sole Solution
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Is It Really the Last Card? Pro-Diaspora Reservations Is It Really the Last Card? Pro-Diaspora Reservations
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The Wager on Establishing a State The Wager on Establishing a State
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“There Is No Choice”: The Slogan of the Survivors “There Is No Choice”: The Slogan of the Survivors
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“The New Jew” and the Remnant Mentality “The New Jew” and the Remnant Mentality
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Cite
Luz, Ehud, '“The Remnant of Israel”', in Michael Swirsky (ed.), Wrestling with an Angel: Power, Morality, and Jewish Identity (New Haven, CT , 2003; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 31 Oct. 2013), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300092936.003.0005, accessed 6 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the so-called “sense of ending,” one of the motives for the radical change in the self-image of the modern Jew and for the emergence of the Zionist ethos of power. It explains the concept of wager, a form of faith that Zionism inherited from Judaism but filled with new meaning: the resolve to ensure the survival of the Jewish people in an apparently hopeless situation. It suggests that one of the factors motivating the Zionist wager was the concept of “the remnant of Israel” and this idea was of the highest importance in the shaping of the Zionist ethic of power.
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