Emile Marmorstein, ‘Heaven at Bay: The Jewish Kulturkampf in the Holy Land’

Originally published in JJSO 12:1 (1970), pp. 108-9. Emile Marmorstein, Heaven at Bay: The Jewish Kulturkampf in the Holy Land, ix + 215 pp., Oxford University Press, London, 1969, 45s. The problem of Judaism as a religious faith versus a secular-nationalistic interpretation of Jewish destiny is sufficiently far-reaching to demand much serious investigation. In many ways the…