Yaakov Ariel
Biographic Data
| ID | 972977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaakov Ariel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaakov |
| FAMILY NAME | Ariel |
| SIGNATURE | ARIEL Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-5932-4999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Messianism, the Holy Land, and the Jews: The roots and development of Christian Zionism in its first generations
The Routledge Handbook of Christianity and Culture
"The centrality and importance of the intersection of Christianity and culture when it comes to English speaking countries and particularly American culture, history, and politics is beyond doubt. The Routledge Handbook of Christianity and Culture is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided …
Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue
scholars, students, and religious leaders who take interest in interfaith dialogues, and especially in the interactions between Latter-day Saints and Jews, will welcome Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue. The compilation demonstrates both a continuation of and a breakthrough in the long history of the exchanges between the two communities of faith.Latter-day Saint interactions with Jews started in the …
Nes Ammim. Protestants in the young State of Israel, 1952–1967 , by Gert van Klinken
Walking together, walking apart: Conservative Judaism and neo-Hasidism
The essay examines the relationship between Conservative Judaism and the neo-Hasidic movement that has come about in the 1960 s-1970 s in American Judaism. It analyzes moments of interaction and mutual influences, pointing to the social and cultural changes that triggered them. It identifies the ways in which neo-Hasidism and Conservative Judaism affected each other’s character, and the manner Neo-Hasidism offered Conservative Judaism new resourc…
From a Jewish Communist to a Jewish Buddhist: Allen Ginsberg as a Forerunner of a New American Jew
The article examines Allen Ginsberg's cultural and spiritual journeys, and traces the poet's paths as foreshadowing those of many American Jews of the last generation. Ginsberg was a unique individual, whose choices were very different other men of his era. However, it was larger developments in American society that allowed him to take steps that were virtually unthinkable during his parents' generation and were novel and daring in his time as w…
Contemporary Christianity and Israel
Nationalizing Judaism: Zionism as a theological ideology
A New Model of Christian Interaction with the Jews: The Institutum Judaicum and Missions to the Jews in the Atlantic World
The Institutum Judaicum represented a new movement in the realm of Christian interactions with the Jews. The mission, and the Pietist movement as a whole, proposed an alternative, non-supersessionist understanding of the Jews and their role in history. They made efforts to interact with that people and share with them the Pietist reading of the scriptures and a messianic vision for the End Times. While they considered their version of Christianit…
Biblical narratives, messianic hopes and religious radicalism: Jewish fundamentalism in our time
Thepaper examinesthe contemporary scene of Jewish fundamentalism, focusing on its two major wings:the separatist Ultra-Orthodox, and the more culturally accommodating but politically radicalZ ionist OrthodoxS ettlers and would-be Temple Builders.B oth those segments of Judaism have been demographically and institutionallyonthe rise in the last generation and have made their impact on the political scene,c hanging the character and image of Judais…
Biblical narratives, messianic hopes and religious radicalism: Jewish fundamentalism in our time
The paper examines the contemporary scene of Jewish fundamentalism, focusing on its two major wings: the separatist Ultra-Orthodox, and the more culturally accommodating but politically radical Zionist Orthodox Settlers and would-be Temple Builders. Both those segments of Judaism have been demographically and institutionally on the rise in the last generation and have made their impact on the political scene, changing the character and image of J…
An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews
It is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in common. Yet special alliances developed between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to recognize their true savior. Consequently, they set out to influence the course of Jewish life by attempting to evangelize Jews and to facilitate their return to Palestine. The…
Christine Leigh Heyrman. American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam
Those interested in the history of American and Protestant engagements with Islam and the Middle East will welcome Christine Leigh Heyrman’s new book. American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam explores the thoughts and deeds of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Levant, who set out to that region in the early 1820s. A number of historians, including Robert T. Handy in The Holy Land in American Protestant Life,…
Charisma and Counterculture: Allen Ginsberg as a Prophet for a New Generation
The cultural role of Allen Ginsberg does not fit a typical Weberian model of charisma. The avant-garde poet was an outstanding personality and possessed an unusual ability to affect people. He played a vital role in expanding the boundaries of personal freedom in America of the 1950s-1990s, blazing new paths for spiritual, communal and artistic expression. Serving as a father figure for the counterculture-a symbol of an alternative set of cultura…
A German Rabbi and Scholar in America: Kaufmann Kohler and the Shaping of American Jewish Theological and Intellectual Agendas
One of the more central German-American rabbis, Kaufmann Kohler played a prominent role in shaping American Jewish communal, religious and intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century. Kohler served as a link between the German-Jewish religious and intellectual environment and that of the United States, where he emigrated in 1869. Like a number of Reform rabbis in Germany, Kohler saw his work as a rabbi, a Reform leader, theologian, ini…
Israel in Contemporary Evangelical Christian Millennial Thought
Israel and the Jewish people play a central role in the millennial thought of evangelical Christians. Drawing on older Christian messianic elements, as well as introducing new concepts, evangelicals have looked upon the Jews as historical Israel and at Palestine as ground zero of End-Times millennial events. Beginning in the nineteenth century, evangelicals have become actively involved in attempts to build a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine. The…
Radical Millennial Movements in Contemporary Judaism in Israel
Jews and New Religious Movements: An Introductory Essay
Throughout the modern era, Jews have established a series of new religious movements that in general have represented the influence of changing social and cultural realities on Jewish communal expressions. Since the 1960s, a number of new Jewish movements have utilized neo-Hasidic teachings to re-engage Jews in the spiritual elements of their tradition. Many Jews have also shown interest in new religious movements outside the Jewish fold, often p…
The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election
Paradigm Shift: New Religious Movements and Quests for Meaning and Community in Contemporary Israel
Since the 1970s a growing number of Israelis have moved to seek spiritual fulfillment and communal attachments in new religious movements. The crisis of secular modernist Zionist Israel, which started after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, allowed new religious movements to find a fruitful ground for their activities. Many of these new groups developed within the Jewish tradition, often attracting followers based on different ethnic, political and gen…
Gay, Orthodox, and Trembling: The Rise of Jewish Orthodox Gay Consciousness, 1970s-2000s
In 2001, the documentary movie, Trembling Before God, was played in Jewish and gay film festivals around the world, provoking strong emotional reactions. Trembling Before God comprises interviews with Orthodox Jewish gay and lesbian persons who vividly and movingly describe their struggles to live their lives as observant Jewish people, being faithful at the same time to their sexual desires and their religious tradition. Almost all the people in…
Can Adam and Eve Reconcile: Gender and Sexuality in a New Jewish Religious Movement
In the late 1960s a new Jewish religious movement challenged the current conventional assumptions on the relationship between Judaism and the sexual revolution, as well as the women's movement. The neo-hasids were members of the counterculture who became observant Jews and sought inspiration in Hasidic forms of Jewish spirituality. While to many the hippie culture seemed far removed from an observant form of Judaism, to the neo-hasids such a hybr…
From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews
Journal Article From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews Get access From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews. By Umansky Ellen M.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 245 pp. $45.00, isbn0-19-504400-2.) Yaakov Ariel Yaakov Ariel University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…
An Unexpected Alliance: Christian Zionism and its Historical Significance
In 1840, the leader of the evangelical party in Britain, Lord Ashley Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, petitioned the British foreign minister, requesting that Britain initiate the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.1 Fifty years later, an American evangelist, William Blackstone, organized a petition to the president of the United States, urging him to convene an international conference that would decide to grant Palestine to th…
Hasidism in the Age of Aquarius: The House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco, 1967-1977
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Americans encountered an unexpected group of people who, at first sight, seemed unreal: Hasidic hippies. Conceiving of Hasidic Judaism as being incompatible with the spirit of the era and of hippie culture as being far removed from the Jewish tradition, most Jews could not comprehend how anyone could try to amalgamate two such opposing cultures.Many of the young Hasidic hippies were affiliated with or influenced…
An Unexpected Alliance: Christian Zionism and its Historical Significance
In 1840, the leader of the evangelical party in Britain, Lord Ashley Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, petitioned the British foreign minister, requesting that Britain initiate the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.1 Fifty years later, an American evangelist, William Blackstone, organized a petition to the president of the United States, urging him to convene an international conference that would decide to grant Palestine to th…
Gay, Orthodox, and Trembling: The Rise of Jewish Orthodox Gay Consciousness, 1970s-2000s
In 2001, the documentary movie, Trembling Before God, was played in Jewish and gay film festivals around the world, provoking strong emotional reactions. Trembling Before God comprises interviews with Orthodox Jewish gay and lesbian persons who vividly and movingly describe their struggles to live their lives as observant Jewish people, being faithful at the same time to their sexual desires and their religious tradition. Almost all the people in…
Hasidism in the Age of Aquarius: The House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco, 1967-1977
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Americans encountered an unexpected group of people who, at first sight, seemed unreal: Hasidic hippies. Conceiving of Hasidic Judaism as being incompatible with the spirit of the era and of hippie culture as being far removed from the Jewish tradition, most Jews could not comprehend how anyone could try to amalgamate two such opposing cultures.Many of the young Hasidic hippies were affiliated with or influenced…
Doomsday in Jerusalem? Christian Messianic Groups and the Rebuilding of the Temple
The rebuilding of the Temple has played an important part in Christian pre-millenialist Messianic expectations. Such an event would for them signify the imminent arrival of the messianic age. Following the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Israeli conquest of the historical parts of Jerusalem, many pre-millenialist Christians have expected the Jews to build the Temple and reinstate the sacrifices prescribed in the Bible. The rise in the 1970s of Jewish…
Messianism, Holiness, Charisma, and Community: The American-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem, 1881-1933
One of the most interesting Protestant sects that settled in Palestine from 1881 onwards, and that operated successfully for more than fifty years, was the American-Swedish "Colony" in Jerusalem.1 Known in its early years as the "Spaffordites," the group was also called the "Overcomers," since the members' journey to Jerusalem was spurred by their desire to overcome a series of personal tragedies. The history of the "American Colony," as it was k…
Israel in Contemporary Evangelical Christian Millennial Thought
Israel and the Jewish people play a central role in the millennial thought of evangelical Christians. Drawing on older Christian messianic elements, as well as introducing new concepts, evangelicals have looked upon the Jews as historical Israel and at Palestine as ground zero of End-Times millennial events. Beginning in the nineteenth century, evangelicals have become actively involved in attempts to build a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine. The…
The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election
From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews
Journal Article From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews Get access From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews. By Umansky Ellen M.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 245 pp. $45.00, isbn0-19-504400-2.) Yaakov Ariel Yaakov Ariel University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…
Counterculture and Mission: Jews for Jesus and the Vietnam Era Missionary Campaigns, 1970-1975
In the early 1970's, Americans noticed a striking group of people: young men and women who stood in crowded city areas, wearing T-shirts with the motto "Jews for Jesus" and distributing leaflets calling upon Jews to embrace Jesus as their savior. These people made such a strong impression and attracted so much attention that, in the eyes of many, Jews for Jesus became associated with all attempts to evangelize Jews in America, as well as becoming…
A Reply to Lawrence Baron's Response
Journal Article A Reply to Lawrence Baron's Response Get access Yaakov Ariel Yaakov Ariel Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 1993, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/7.1.149 Published: 01 March 1993
Jewish Suffering and Christian Salvation: The Evangelical-Fundamentalist Holocaust Memoirs
This article examines Holocaust memoirs of evangelical Christians which have become widely circulated among evangelical-fundamentalists in the last two decades. It points out the way this conservative segment of Protestant Christianity interprets the Holocaust in light of its distinct theological views. In their opinion the Holocaust was caused by man's alienation from God. They assert that the true Christian believers, born-again evangelicals, d…
Jewish Suffering and Christian Salvation: The Evangelical-Fundamentalist Holocaust Memoirs
This article examines Holocaust memoirs of evangelical Christians which have become widely circulated among evangelical-fundamentalists in the last two decades. It points out the way this conservative segment of Protestant Christianity interprets the Holocaust in light of its distinct theological views. In their opinion the Holocaust was caused by man's alienation from God. They assert that the true Christian believers, born-again evangelicals, d…
In the Shadow of the Millennium: American Fundamentalists and the Jewish People
In 1982 Menachem Begin, then Israel’s Prime Minister, presented Jerry Falwell, an evangelist and leader of the fundamentalist group ‘the Moral Majority’, with a medal of the Jabotinsky Order, an organization associated with Begin’s Likud Party. Observers both of American religion and Middle East politics could not help but notice the friendship that had developed between the Israeli government and conservative evangelical elements within American…
On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865-1945
Journal Article On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865–1945. By Yaakov Ariel. (Brooklyn: Carlson, 1991. xviii + 172 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-926019-39-2.) Get access Joel A. Carpenter Joel A. Carpenter Pew Charitable Trusts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 671, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080…
A Reply to Lawrence Baron's Response
Journal Article A Reply to Lawrence Baron's Response Get access Yaakov Ariel Yaakov Ariel Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 1993, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/7.1.149 Published: 01 March 1993
Pious Passions: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran
Messianism, Holiness, Charisma, and Community: The American-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem, 1881-1933
One of the most interesting Protestant sects that settled in Palestine from 1881 onwards, and that operated successfully for more than fifty years, was the American-Swedish "Colony" in Jerusalem.1 Known in its early years as the "Spaffordites," the group was also called the "Overcomers," since the members' journey to Jerusalem was spurred by their desire to overcome a series of personal tragedies. The history of the "American Colony," as it was k…
Counterculture and Mission: Jews for Jesus and the Vietnam Era Missionary Campaigns, 1970-1975
In the early 1970's, Americans noticed a striking group of people: young men and women who stood in crowded city areas, wearing T-shirts with the motto "Jews for Jesus" and distributing leaflets calling upon Jews to embrace Jesus as their savior. These people made such a strong impression and attracted so much attention that, in the eyes of many, Jews for Jesus became associated with all attempts to evangelize Jews in America, as well as becoming…
Christianity through Reform Eyes: Kaufmann Kohler's Scholarship on Christianity
American Jewish History - Volume 89, Number 2, June 2001
Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000
Journal Article Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880–2000. By Yaakov Ariel. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii, 367 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8078-2566-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-4880-8.) Get access William Vance Trollinger, Jr. William Vance Trollinger, Jr. University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…
Doomsday in Jerusalem? Christian Messianic Groups and the Rebuilding of the Temple
The rebuilding of the Temple has played an important part in Christian pre-millenialist Messianic expectations. Such an event would for them signify the imminent arrival of the messianic age. Following the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Israeli conquest of the historical parts of Jerusalem, many pre-millenialist Christians have expected the Jews to build the Temple and reinstate the sacrifices prescribed in the Bible. The rise in the 1970s of Jewish…
Internal Report Submitted to the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
Hasidism in the Age of Aquarius: The House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco, 1967-1977
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Americans encountered an unexpected group of people who, at first sight, seemed unreal: Hasidic hippies. Conceiving of Hasidic Judaism as being incompatible with the spirit of the era and of hippie culture as being far removed from the Jewish tradition, most Jews could not comprehend how anyone could try to amalgamate two such opposing cultures.Many of the young Hasidic hippies were affiliated with or influenced…
An Unexpected Alliance: Christian Zionism and its Historical Significance
In 1840, the leader of the evangelical party in Britain, Lord Ashley Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, petitioned the British foreign minister, requesting that Britain initiate the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.1 Fifty years later, an American evangelist, William Blackstone, organized a petition to the president of the United States, urging him to convene an international conference that would decide to grant Palestine to th…
Can Adam and Eve Reconcile: Gender and Sexuality in a New Jewish Religious Movement
In the late 1960s a new Jewish religious movement challenged the current conventional assumptions on the relationship between Judaism and the sexual revolution, as well as the women's movement. The neo-hasids were members of the counterculture who became observant Jews and sought inspiration in Hasidic forms of Jewish spirituality. While to many the hippie culture seemed far removed from an observant form of Judaism, to the neo-hasids such a hybr…
From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews
Journal Article From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews Get access From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews. By Umansky Ellen M.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 245 pp. $45.00, isbn0-19-504400-2.) Yaakov Ariel Yaakov Ariel University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…
Gay, Orthodox, and Trembling: The Rise of Jewish Orthodox Gay Consciousness, 1970s-2000s
In 2001, the documentary movie, Trembling Before God, was played in Jewish and gay film festivals around the world, provoking strong emotional reactions. Trembling Before God comprises interviews with Orthodox Jewish gay and lesbian persons who vividly and movingly describe their struggles to live their lives as observant Jewish people, being faithful at the same time to their sexual desires and their religious tradition. Almost all the people in…
Paradigm Shift: New Religious Movements and Quests for Meaning and Community in Contemporary Israel
Since the 1970s a growing number of Israelis have moved to seek spiritual fulfillment and communal attachments in new religious movements. The crisis of secular modernist Zionist Israel, which started after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, allowed new religious movements to find a fruitful ground for their activities. Many of these new groups developed within the Jewish tradition, often attracting followers based on different ethnic, political and gen…
Radical Millennial Movements in Contemporary Judaism in Israel
Jews and New Religious Movements: An Introductory Essay
Throughout the modern era, Jews have established a series of new religious movements that in general have represented the influence of changing social and cultural realities on Jewish communal expressions. Since the 1960s, a number of new Jewish movements have utilized neo-Hasidic teachings to re-engage Jews in the spiritual elements of their tradition. Many Jews have also shown interest in new religious movements outside the Jewish fold, often p…
The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election
A German Rabbi and Scholar in America: Kaufmann Kohler and the Shaping of American Jewish Theological and Intellectual Agendas
One of the more central German-American rabbis, Kaufmann Kohler played a prominent role in shaping American Jewish communal, religious and intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century. Kohler served as a link between the German-Jewish religious and intellectual environment and that of the United States, where he emigrated in 1869. Like a number of Reform rabbis in Germany, Kohler saw his work as a rabbi, a Reform leader, theologian, ini…
Israel in Contemporary Evangelical Christian Millennial Thought
Israel and the Jewish people play a central role in the millennial thought of evangelical Christians. Drawing on older Christian messianic elements, as well as introducing new concepts, evangelicals have looked upon the Jews as historical Israel and at Palestine as ground zero of End-Times millennial events. Beginning in the nineteenth century, evangelicals have become actively involved in attempts to build a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine. The…
Charisma and Counterculture: Allen Ginsberg as a Prophet for a New Generation
The cultural role of Allen Ginsberg does not fit a typical Weberian model of charisma. The avant-garde poet was an outstanding personality and possessed an unusual ability to affect people. He played a vital role in expanding the boundaries of personal freedom in America of the 1950s-1990s, blazing new paths for spiritual, communal and artistic expression. Serving as a father figure for the counterculture-a symbol of an alternative set of cultura…
Biblical narratives, messianic hopes and religious radicalism: Jewish fundamentalism in our time
Thepaper examinesthe contemporary scene of Jewish fundamentalism, focusing on its two major wings:the separatist Ultra-Orthodox, and the more culturally accommodating but politically radicalZ ionist OrthodoxS ettlers and would-be Temple Builders.B oth those segments of Judaism have been demographically and institutionallyonthe rise in the last generation and have made their impact on the political scene,c hanging the character and image of Judais…
Biblical narratives, messianic hopes and religious radicalism: Jewish fundamentalism in our time
The paper examines the contemporary scene of Jewish fundamentalism, focusing on its two major wings: the separatist Ultra-Orthodox, and the more culturally accommodating but politically radical Zionist Orthodox Settlers and would-be Temple Builders. Both those segments of Judaism have been demographically and institutionally on the rise in the last generation and have made their impact on the political scene, changing the character and image of J…
Philosophy (29 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (27 works) · Religious studies (27 works) · History (26 works) · Judaism (23 works) · Theology (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (16 works) · Law (16 works)