
Published online:
31 October 2013
Published in print:
11 August 2003
Online ISBN:
9780300129298
Print ISBN:
9780300092936
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The Betrayed Covenant The Betrayed Covenant
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“Beyond Despair … There Is No More Despair” “Beyond Despair … There Is No More Despair”
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Yearning and Imagination Yearning and Imagination
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The Revolutionary Renewal of the Covenant The Revolutionary Renewal of the Covenant
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The Need for Decision “At the End of the Road” The Need for Decision “At the End of the Road”
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Greenberg and Brenner: Two Approaches to the Zionist Wage Greenberg and Brenner: Two Approaches to the Zionist Wage
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Chapter
5 The Wager in Greenberg's The Ways of the River
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Pages
91–102
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Published:August 2003
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Luz, Ehud, 'The Wager in Greenberg's The Ways of the River', 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/9780300092936.003.0006, accessed 7 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the concept of the Jewish ethos of wager in Uri Tzvi Greenberg's poetry The Ways of the River. It explains that this poem is considered one of the most profound and important expressions of Zionist theology and that its prominence may be attributed to the success of Greenberg in giving expression to the experience of bereavement and catastrophic destruction that united the Yishuv and the Jewish people as a whole. It also discusses Greenberg's view that Zionism is the Jewish people's great wager on survival and that the Holocaust has sharpened the need for this wager.
Keywords:
wager, Jewish ethos, Uri Tzvi Greenberg, Yishuv, Jewish people, Zionism, Holocaust, Zionist theology
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