Panel: RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM THROUGH THE LENS OF NONVIOLENCE



536.4 - MESSIANISM AND UNIVERSALISM IN JEWISH PACIFISM: JOEL TEITELBAUM AND AARON SAMUEL TAMARES

AUTHORS:
Pearce R.G. (School of Law/Fordham University ~ New York ~ United States of America)
Text:
This paper will compare the nonviolence visions of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tamares and Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum in the early and mid-Twentieth Century. Both are influential Orthodox Jewish thinkers, pacifists, and anti-zionists. Tamares offers a prophetic vision of Judaism's universalist contribution. Teitelbaum is a messianist, particularist, and separatist. Comparing and contrasting these two perspectives helps illuminate the complexity and diversity of Jewish thought on nonviolence. This paper is part of a larger project on Judaism and Nonviolence.