@article {3226612, title = {Yariv Ben Aharon: A Great Sandness is Behaind it (In Hebrew)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://zman-kibbutz.co.il/magazine/15949?_thumbnail_id=16080}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3223755, title = {John Milton retuns to heaven (In Hebrew)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.yekum.org/2026/04/\%d7\%92\%d7\%95\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%9e\%d7\%99\%d7\%9c\%d7\%98\%d7\%95\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%97\%d7\%95\%d7\%96\%d7\%a8-\%d7\%9c\%d7\%92\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%94\%d7\%a2\%d7\%93\%d7\%9f/}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3220488, title = {Democracy in Israel is dying in the light of day (In Hebrew)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2026-01-19/ty-article-opinion/.premium/0000019b-d65a-d2f8-af9b-f7db3ff10000}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3220490, title = {William Bradford and the Puritans (In Hebrew)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/tarbut-sifrot/2025-12-23/ty-article/.premium/0000019b-4b2a-d034-ab9b-cbaf23690000}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3203114, title = {John Milton\&$\#$39;s Paradise Lost (In Hebrew)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.yekum.org/2025/07/\%d7\%92\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%94\%d7\%a2\%d7\%93\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%94\%d7\%90\%d7\%91\%d7\%95\%d7\%93-\%d7\%a9\%d7\%9c-\%d7\%92\%d7\%95\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%9e\%d7\%99\%d7\%9c\%d7\%98\%d7\%95\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%90\%d7\%91\%d7\%99\%d7\%94\%d7\%95-\%d7\%96\%d7\%9b\%d7\%90\%d7\%99/}, author = {Avihu Zakai and Eli Eshed} } @article {3205751, title = {Doctor Faustus: Roman of Music (In Hebrew)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/thought/\%d7\%95\%d7\%94\%d7\%a9\%d7\%98\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%a2\%d7\%95\%d7\%93-\%d7\%9e\%d7\%aa\%d7\%94\%d7\%9c\%d7\%9a-\%d7\%91\%d7\%a2\%d7\%95\%d7\%9c\%d7\%9d/}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3187961, title = {Dante{\textquoteleft}s Dark Comedy (In Hebrew)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.yekum.org/2024/11/\%d7\%94\%d7\%a7\%d7\%95\%d7\%9e\%d7\%93\%d7\%99\%d7\%94-\%d7\%94\%d7\%90\%d7\%a4\%d7\%9c\%d7\%94-\%d7\%a9\%d7\%9c-\%d7\%93\%d7\%a0\%d7\%98\%d7\%94/}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3186811, title = { The similarity between Netanyahu and Trump does not end with the indictments against them (In Hebrew) }, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2024-11-02/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000192-e35a-d8d2-a1fb-fb5e392b0000}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3183407, title = {Books go to war (In Hebrew)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.yekum.org/2024/07/\%d7\%a1\%d7\%a4\%d7\%a8\%d7\%99\%d7\%9d-\%d7\%9e\%d7\%a9\%d7\%95\%d7\%9e\%d7\%a9\%d7\%99\%d7\%9d-\%d7\%9b\%d7\%9b\%d7\%9c\%d7\%99-\%d7\%a0\%d7\%a9\%d7\%a7/}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3180548, title = {Before the Flood: Three Cities (In Hebrew)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/reading/\%d7\%9c\%d7\%a4\%d7\%a0\%d7\%99-\%d7\%94\%d7\%9e\%d7\%91\%d7\%95\%d7\%9c-\%d7\%a9\%d7\%9c\%d7\%95\%d7\%a9-\%d7\%a2\%d7\%a8\%d7\%99\%d7\%9d/}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3170249, title = {The man who cleared Machiavelli (In Hebrew)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/tarbut-sifrot/2024-01-09/ty-article/.premium/0000018c-e910-d765-ab9d-f97dc3440000}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3183931, title = {Portrait of the historian as a young man: Yaakov Talmon and his book, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Alpayim Ve{\textquoteright}od: Rethinking Culture in Israel - A Biannual Journal}, volume = {4}, year = {2024}, pages = {296-327} } @article {3191419, title = {Race, nation and history in the Victorian era (book review) (In Hebrew)}, journal = {History}, volume = {52-53}, year = {2024}, pages = {163-167}, abstract = {Book review: Oded Y. Steinberg, Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in theVictorian Era, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2019, 296 pp.}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @book {3183446, title = {Witnesses and Statements: War, Trauma and History (In Hebrew)}, year = {2024}, publisher = {Resling}, organization = {Resling}, address = {Tel Aviv}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3165218, title = {On the Top of a Volcano: The life of Saul Friedl\änder (In Hebrew)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.yekum.org/2023/11/\%d7\%99\%d7\%95\%d7\%a9\%d7\%91-\%d7\%a2\%d7\%9c-\%d7\%94\%d7\%a8-\%d7\%92\%d7\%a2\%d7\%a9-\%d7\%97\%d7\%99\%d7\%99-\%d7\%a9\%d7\%90\%d7\%95\%d7\%9c-\%d7\%a4\%d7\%a8\%d7\%99\%d7\%93\%d7\%9c\%d7\%a0\%d7\%93\%d7\%a8/}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3165216, title = {The Historian as a Humanist (In Hebew)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/thought/\%d7\%94\%d7\%94\%d7\%99\%d7\%a1\%d7\%98\%d7\%95\%d7\%a8\%d7\%99\%d7\%95\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%9b\%d7\%94\%d7\%95\%d7\%9e\%d7\%a0\%d7\%99\%d7\%a1\%d7\%98/}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @booklet {3151438, title = {Who Served the Madeleine Cooky - (comment) (In Hebrew)}, howpublished = {Haaretz}, year = {2023}, author = {Avihu Zakai} } @article {3145307, title = {The history belongs to the present (In Hebrew)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/thought/\%D7\%94\%D7\%99\%D7\%A1\%D7\%98\%D7\%95\%D7\%A8\%D7\%99\%D7\%94-\%D7\%94\%D7\%99\%D7\%90-\%D7\%AA\%D7\%9E\%D7\%99\%D7\%93-\%D7\%A9\%D7\%9C-\%D7\%94\%D7\%94\%D7\%95\%D7\%95\%D7\%94/}, author = {Avihu Zakaki} } @article {3141593, title = {\&$\#$39;Boussole\&$\#$39; by Mathias \Énard, Book Review (In Hebrew)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.yekum.org/2023/01/\%d7\%a8\%d7\%95\%d7\%9e\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%90\%d7\%a0\%d7\%a6\%d7\%99\%d7\%a7\%d7\%9c\%d7\%95\%d7\%a4\%d7\%93\%d7\%99-\%d7\%99\%d7\%95\%d7\%a6\%d7\%90-\%d7\%93\%d7\%95\%d7\%a4\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%a1\%d7\%a7\%d7\%99\%d7\%a8\%d7\%94-\%d7\%a2\%d7\%9c-\%d7\%94\%d7\%a1\%d7\%a4/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3139365, title = {Our Theocratic Moment is Getting Closer (In Hebrew)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2022-12-29/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000185-5e74-dc45-a7ed-7f771c220000}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3135553, title = {About \"Provocation\", by Stanis{\l}aw Lem (In Hebrew)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.yekum.org/2022/11/\%d7\%a9\%d7\%a2\%d7\%a9\%d7\%95\%d7\%a2\%d7\%99\%d7\%9d-\%d7\%a2\%d7\%9d-\%d7\%94\%d7\%9e\%d7\%95\%d7\%95\%d7\%aa-\%d7\%a2\%d7\%9c-\%d7\%a4\%d7\%a8\%d7\%95\%d7\%91\%d7\%95\%d7\%a7\%d7\%a6\%d7\%99\%d7\%94-\%d7\%a9\%d7\%9c-\%d7\%a1\%d7\%98\%d7\%a0\%d7\%99/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3133842, title = {Rousseau is not guilty (In Hebrew)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/2022-10-20/ty-article/.premium/00000183-eade-da6b-a1fb-faffe5010000}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3134024, title = {And they are at the end of the east (In Hebrew)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/thought/\%D7\%95\%D7\%94\%D7\%9D-\%D7\%91\%D7\%A7\%D7\%A6\%D7\%94-\%D7\%94\%D7\%9E\%D7\%96\%D7\%A8\%D7\%97/}, author = {Avihu Zakaki} } @article {3124929, title = {The truth revealed from the lie (In Hebrew)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/thought/\%D7\%94\%D7\%90\%D7\%9E\%D7\%AA-\%D7\%94\%D7\%A2\%D7\%95\%D7\%9C\%D7\%94-\%D7\%9E\%D7\%94\%D7\%A9\%D7\%A7\%D7\%A8/}, author = {Avihu Zakaki} } @article {3084850, title = {The secular gospel (In Hebrew)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/article/\%D7\%94\%D7\%91\%D7\%A9\%D7\%95\%D7\%A8\%D7\%94-\%D7\%94\%D7\%97\%D7\%99\%D7\%9C\%D7\%95\%D7\%A0\%D7\%99\%D7\%AA/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3051978, title = {Erich Fromm and his book \&$\#$39;Escape from Freedom (In Hebrew)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/thought/\%D7\%9E\%D7\%94-\%D7\%A7\%D7\%95\%D7\%A8\%D7\%94-\%D7\%9B\%D7\%A9\%D7\%91\%D7\%95\%D7\%A8\%D7\%97\%D7\%99\%D7\%9D-\%D7\%9E\%D7\%94\%D7\%97\%D7\%95\%D7\%A4\%D7\%A9/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046488, title = {Auerbach in Istanbul (In Hebrew)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/article/\%D7\%94\%D7\%91\%D7\%99\%D7\%AA-\%D7\%94\%D7\%99\%D7\%97\%D7\%99\%D7\%93-\%D7\%94\%D7\%95\%D7\%90-\%D7\%94\%D7\%9B\%D7\%AA\%D7\%99\%D7\%91\%D7\%94/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046487, title = {Exile is a lack of friendship and love (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/article/\%d7\%92\%d7\%9c\%d7\%95\%d7\%aa-\%d7\%94\%d7\%99\%d7\%90-\%d7\%94\%d7\%99\%d7\%a2\%d7\%93\%d7\%a8-\%d7\%99\%d7\%93\%d7\%99\%d7\%93\%d7\%95\%d7\%aa-\%d7\%95\%d7\%90\%d7\%94\%d7\%91\%d7\%94/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048345, title = {Einstein and Freud and the Next War: Einstein, Freud, and the wars to come: why war in context, editors: Ofer Ashkenazi, David Bar-Gal, Eran Rolnik (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/thought/\%D7\%91\%D7\%A4\%D7\%A8\%D7\%A1-\%D7\%A0\%D7\%95\%D7\%91\%D7\%9C-\%D7\%9C\%D7\%A9\%D7\%9C\%D7\%95\%D7\%9D-\%D7\%9C\%D7\%90-\%D7\%A0\%D7\%96\%D7\%9B\%D7\%94/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046485, title = {The Poverty of the Middle Class (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, pages = {32}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046484, title = {The Mystery of the Missing Father (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://blog.nli.org.il/mussach-82-bikoret-proza/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048344, title = {Letter to a Child Survivor of the Holocaust: \"Beyond the bridge\", by Palo (Yaakov) Shelah (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Amirot}, year = {2020}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046483, title = {Max Weber on Religion, Rationalism and Capitalism (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/thought/\%D7\%A6\%D7\%95\%D7\%91\%D7\%A8\%D7\%99\%D7\%9D-\%D7\%96\%D7\%9B\%D7\%95\%D7\%99\%D7\%95\%D7\%AA/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046481, title = {From Devil to Saint: Machiavelli in History and Historiography (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/article/\%d7\%90\%d7\%99\%d7\%9a-\%d7\%94\%d7\%a4\%d7\%9a-\%d7\%a9\%d7\%98\%d7\%9f-\%d7\%9c\%d7\%94\%d7\%95\%d7\%9e\%d7\%a0\%d7\%99\%d7\%a1\%d7\%98-\%d7\%92\%d7\%93\%d7\%95\%d7\%9c/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048343, title = {Defeated and Defeated: \"The Haors - A War Journal: The 600 Brigade during the Yom Kippur War\", by Menachem Ben Shalom (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, pages = {26-27}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048342, title = {Band of Brothers: \"The Haors - A War Journal: The 600 Brigade during the Yom Kippur War\", by Menachem Ben Shalom (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, pages = {32}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046482, title = {From Devil to Saint: Machiavelli in History and Historiography}, journal = {Society}, volume = {57}, year = {2020}, pages = {332-342}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00487-2}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035464, title = {Jewish Exiles\&$\#$39; Psychological Interpretations of Nazism}, year = {2020}, pages = {171}, publisher = {Palgravce Macmillan}, organization = {Palgravce Macmillan}, address = {Cham}, abstract = {This book examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their places of exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind: Wilhelm Reich{\textquoteright}s\ The Mass Psychology of Fascism\ (1933), Erich Fromm{\textquoteright}s\ Escape from Freedom\ (1941), Siegfried Kracauer{\textquoteright}s\ From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film\ (1947), and Erich Neumann{\textquoteright}s\ Depth Psychology and a New Ethic\ (1949). While scholars have examined these authors{\textquoteright} individual legacies, no comparative analysis of their shared concerns has yet been undertaken, nor have the content and form of their psychological inquiries into Nazism been seriously and systematically analyzed. Yet, the sense of urgency in their works calls for attention. They all took up their pens to counter Nazi barbarism, believing, like the English jurist and judge Sir William Blackstone, who wrote in 1753 -\ scribere est agere\ ("to write is to act"). -- Publisher{\textquoteright}s Description}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035462, title = {The Pen Confronts the Sword: Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, pages = {359}, publisher = {Mosad Bialik}, organization = {Mosad Bialik}, address = {Jerusalem}, abstract = {
בשנת 1942 סערו וגעשו הקרבות בסטלינגרד, והג{\textquoteright}נוסייד הנאצי הגיע לשיאו. גורל הציוויליזציה המערבית היה תלוי בשׂערה. ספר זה דן בארבעה חיבורים יוצאי דופן בשנה גורלית זו, פרי עטם של מלומדים גולים מגרמניה שיצאו חוצץ נגד הברבריות הנאצית: {\textquoteright}דוקטור פאוסטוס{\textquoteright} מאת תומאס מאן (1947), {\textquoteright}המיתוס של המדינה{\textquoteright} מאת ארנסט קסירר (1946), {\textquoteright}מימזיס: התגלמות המציאות בספרות המערב{\textquoteright} מאת אריך אוארבך (1946), {\textquoteright}דיאלקטיקה של נאורות{\textquoteright} מאת מקס הורקהיימר ותאודור אדורנו (1944). עד כה נחקרה המורשת הייחודית של כל אחד מן המחברים האלה בנפרד, ולא נבחן אותו הרגע של שנת 1942 שהיה פרשת דרכים מכריעה בקריירות שלהם. מחבר הספר {\textquoteright}העט נגד החרב{\textquoteright} בודק כל חיבור לגופו, מסביר את ההקשר של יצירתו, ומאיר את הקשרים שבין ארבעת החיבורים האלה.מחבריהם קראו בהם למלחמת תרבות דחופה ומקיפה כנגד הברבריות הנאצית, ובתוך כך שינו את קווי המִתאר ואת התכנים של ההיסטוריה האינטלקטואלית המודרנית. -- תיאור המו"ל
}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035463, title = {Psychological Interpretations of Nazism: Studies on the Nature and Character of Fascism (In Hebrew)}, year = {2020}, pages = {190}, publisher = {Carmel Publishing House}, organization = {Carmel Publishing House}, address = {Jerusalem}, abstract = {
הספר דן בשורת חיבורים של מלומדים יהודים-גרמנים, אשר ניסו להתחקות אחר הפתולוגיה של הרוח הנאצית: וילהלם רייך, פסיכולוגית ההמונים של הפשיזם (1933) ; אריך פרום, מנוס מחופש (1914) ; זיגפריד קרקאואר, מקליגרי להיטלר: היסטוריה של הסרט הגרמני (1947) ; ואריך נוימן: פסיכולוגיית-המעמקים ומוסר חדש (1949). בעבר נבחנה המורשת האישית של כל אחד ואחד מהם, אך עד כה חיבורים אלה לא היוו נושא לבחינה השוואתית של מטרותיהם המשותפות. עד עתה, התוכן וצורת המחקר הפסיכולוגי שלהם את הנאציזם והפשיזם לא נדונו בצורה השוואתית, משמעותית ושיטתית. כולם היו שותפים בתחושת הנחיצות והדחיפות המשתקפת בחיבורים אלה. כולם חשו, כלשונו של הסופר הרמן ברוך, ש"הזמן ניצב על חודו של סכין" (1945). ‬-- תיאור המו"ל
}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046486, title = {Weimar Cinema as Pandora\’s Box (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Tabur: Yearbook for Central European History, Society, Culture and Thought}, volume = {10}, year = {2020}, url = {https://tabur.huji.ac.il/\%D7\%98\%D7\%91\%D7\%95\%D7\%A8-\%D7\%92\%D7\%9C\%D7\%99\%D7\%95\%D7\%9F-10-\%D7\%9E\%D7\%90\%D7\%9E\%D7\%A8-\%D7\%A9\%D7\%9C\%D7\%99\%D7\%A9\%D7\%99-\%D7\%90\%D7\%91\%D7\%99\%D7\%94\%D7\%95-\%D7\%96\%D7\%9B\%D7\%90\%D7\%99}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046480, title = {Dialectic of Enlightenment (In Hebrew)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://alaxon.co.il/article/\%d7\%a0\%d7\%90\%d7\%95\%d7\%a8\%d7\%95\%d7\%aa-\%d7\%90\%d7\%a4\%d7\%9c\%d7\%94-\%d7\%95\%d7\%91\%d7\%95\%d7\%94\%d7\%a7\%d7\%aa/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048341, title = {Doctor Faustus and Machiavelli (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, year = {2019}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3058905, title = {The Bible surpasses Homer in terms of a true, historical and realistic representation of reality (In Hebrew)}, year = {2019}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046479, title = {The Old Testament and Homer (In Hebrew)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/.premium-1.7677784}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046477, title = {Wilhelm Reich and the Mass Psychology of Fascism (In Hebrew)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/.premium-1.7184016}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046476, title = {Geoffrey Hartmen: Text, Spirit and Collective Memory (In Hebrew)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/.premium-1.7062581}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048340, title = {Geoffrey Hartman - Interpretation, Judaism, and Western Humanism (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Tabur: Journal for Central European History}, volume = {9}, year = {2019}, pages = {86-94}, url = {https://tabur.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/tabur/files/tbvr9_zky_byqvrt_spr.pdf}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046478, title = {\"Erich Neumann\&$\#$39;s Depth Psychology and New Ethic (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Tabur: Journal for Central European History}, volume = {9}, year = {2019}, pages = {63-85}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046474, title = {Sad Lamentation for memorial Day 2018 (In Hebrew)}, year = {2018}, pages = {15}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035461, title = {The Disenchantment of the World: Science and Religion in Early Modern Period (In Hebrew)}, year = {2018}, pages = {301}, publisher = {Resling Publishing House}, organization = {Resling Publishing House}, address = {Tel Aviv}, abstract = {
המדע המכניסטי המודרני אשר מסביר את העולם על פי חומר ותנועה בלבד.התגליות של קופרניקוס, קפלר, גלילאו, בייקון, דקרט וניוטון שינו כליל את השקפת העולם של ימי הביניים והביאו להסרת הקסם מהעולם, להרס היקום המהולל של דנטה ומילטון אשר לא תחם גבולות לדמיון האדם.במקום עולם עשיר בצבעים וקולות, מפעים וזורח, מלא בשמחה, אהבה ויופי, המגלה הרמוניה מכוונת ורעיונות יוצרים, בפילוסופיה המכניסטית העולם המשמעותי הוא עולם קשה, קר, חסר צבע, משולל קול ומת {\textendash} עולם של כמויות ותנועות הנמנ‏ו‏ת בצורה מתמטית ובקביעות מכניסטית. בהיסטוריה של המדע בעת החדשה המוקדמת דנים לרוב בהתקדמות המדע; מחקרים מעטים, אם בכלל, עוסקים בשאלה כיצד הגיבו בני הדור להרס תמונת היקום המסורתית. הסרת הקסם מהעולם: דת ומדע בראשית העת החדשה דן בהיסטוריה אלטרנטיבית להתקדמות המדע. הוא מגלה את השפעתו השלילית של המדע החדש של הטבע על הגדרות ועיצובים מסורתיים של זהויות דתיות בראשית התקופה המודרנית; כך למשל, המשורר המטפיזי ג{\textquoteright}ון דאן התקיף את האסטרונומיה החדשה, אשר בה השמש היא מרכז העולם ולא הארץ; הוא חשף את "פני יאנוס" של המדע החדש, את הסכנות והאיומים שהפילוסופיה החדשה של טב‏ע‏ הציבה בפני דפוסי מחשבה ואמונה דתיים-מסורתיים. כמו דאן, גם הפילוסוף בלז פסקל התנגד לפילוסופיה המכניסטית-רציונליסטית של רנה דקרט. הוא הדין ביחס למהפכה שחולל אייזק ניוטון {\textendash} רבים באנגליה טענו שהמתמטיזציה שלו את עולם הטבע מביאה להסרת הקסם מהעולם, ובכך משנה את יסודות המחשבה והאמונה הנוצרית-מסורתית. -- תיאור המו"ל
}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035459, title = {Odysseus\’ Scar: Main Issues in Erich Auerbach\’s Life and Thought (In Hebrew)}, year = {2018}, pages = {180}, publisher = {Carmel Publishing House}, organization = {Carmel Publishing House}, address = {Jerusalem}, abstract = {
אריך אוארבך (1957-1892) היה פילולוג יהודי גרמני דגול, חוקר ספרות השוואתית, היסטוריון ומבקר ספרות. ספר זה מציג מחדש את הביוגרפיה הרעיונית של יצירתו במסכת תמציתית ובהירה, הממחישה את התהוות היצירה לצד התמורות הדרמטיות בנות הזמן - עליית הפשיזם בגרמניה והמהפכה הנאצית שהעלתה את היטלר לשלטון ודחקה את אוארבך לגלות באיסטנבול. בספר זה נבחנים חייו, זמנו ועבודתו של אוארבך מנקודת מבט קונטקסטואלית, המביאה בחשבון את הרקע ההיסטורי והאידאולוגי - את ניצחונן של הפילולוגיה הארית וההיסטוריוגרפיה הנאצית, המבוססות על גזענות ועל אנטישמיות. אלו עקרו כליל את התנ"ך העברי, הברית הישנה, מן התרבות הגרמנית ומן הציוויליזציה המערבית. בתגובה חיבר אוארבך אפולוגיה (Apologia), כתב הגנה על המסורת ההומניסטית היהודית־נוצרית של המערב בימים שזו עמדה בפני הסכנה הגדולה ביותר לקיומה -- תיאור המו"ל
}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035460, title = {The Pen Confronts the Sword: Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism}, year = {2018}, pages = {363}, publisher = {SUNY Press}, organization = {SUNY Press}, address = {Albany}, abstract = {"During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Mann{\textquoteright}s Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer{\textquoteright}s The Myth of the State (1946); Erich Auerbach{\textquoteright}s Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno{\textquoteright}s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Each identified a specific danger in Nazi ideology and mustered new theories, approaches, and sources to combat it. The books aimed to expose the encompassing catastrophes of German culture (Mann), politics (Cassirer), philology (Auerbach), and philosophy and sociology (Horkheimer and Adorno). Their scope, mastery, and sense of urgency constitute a comprehensive Kulturkampf (culture war) against Nazi barbarism. Avihu Zakai cogently analyzes each work, explains the context of its creation, and draws connections between these four landmark books in Western intellectual history" -- Publisher{\textquoteright}s Description}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046475, title = {A Psychological Inquiry into Totalitarianism: Erich Fromm\&$\#$39;s Escape From Freedom}, journal = {Society}, volume = {55}, year = {2018}, pages = {440-450}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0286-2}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046472, title = {The Secret Union of the German Spirit with the Demonic (In Hebrew)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/prose/1.4140085}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3046473, title = {Apocalypse/Apocalypticism}, booktitle = {The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Eerdmans Publishing}, organization = {Eerdmans Publishing}, address = {Michigan}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035458, title = {Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich: Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach}, year = {2017}, pages = {307}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, abstract = {Hans\ Baron, Karl\ Popper, Leo\ Strauss and\ Erich\ Auerbach\ were among the many German-speaking\ Jewish\ intellectuals who fled Continental\ Europe\ with the rise of Nazism\ in the\ 1930s. Their scholarship, though not normally considered together, is studied here to demonstrate how, despite their different disciplines and distinctive modes of working, they responded polemically\ in the\ guise of traditional scholarship to their shared trauma. For each, the political calamity\ of European\ fascism was a profound intellectual crisis, requiring an intellectual response which Weinstein and Zakai now contextualize, ideologically and politically. They exemplify just how extensively, and sometimes how subtly, 1930s and 1940s scholarship was used not only to explain, but to fight the political evils that had infected modernity, victimizing so many. An original perspective on a popular area of research, this book draws upon a mass of secondary literature to provide an innovative and valuable contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history. -- Publisher{\textquoteright}s description}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711064}, author = {Zakai, Avihu and David Weinstein} } @article {3046470, title = {Election in America (In Hebrew)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4879840,00.html}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048339, title = {Ran Cohen: Said, by Ran Cohen (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, volume = {1549}, year = {2016}, pages = {28}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048338, title = {Educational Aims in the 21st Century: The View from Israel, by Avraham Frank (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, year = {2016}, pages = {24}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046469, title = {Ernst Cassirer and \"The Myth of the State\" (In Hebrew)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/.premium-1.2964687}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046468, title = {Doktor Faustus: \"The Secret Union of the German Spirit with the Demonic\" (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Haptiliya}, year = {2016}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046467, title = {The End of Western civilization (In Hebrew)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/1.2894090}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046466, title = {Dante and the \"Discovery of European Representation of Man\" (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Haptiliya}, year = {2016}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046471, title = {\&$\#$39;Doktor Faustus\&$\#$39; Apocalypse and Eschatology: \&$\#$39;The Secret Union of the German Spirit with the Demonic\&$\#$39; (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Tabur: Journal for Central European History}, volume = {7}, year = {2016}, pages = {1-48}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035457, title = {Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: The Humanist Tradition in Peril}, year = {2016}, pages = {218}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, address = {Switzerland}, abstract = {This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach{\textquoteright}s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with his struggle against the premises of Aryan philology, based on v{\"o}lkisch mysticism and Nazi historiography, which eliminated the Old Testament from German Kultur and Volksgeist in particular, and Western culture and civilization in general. It examines in detail his apologia for, or defense and justification of, Western Judaeo-Christian humanist tradition at its gravest existential moment. It discusses Auerbach{\textquoteright}s ultimate goal, which was to counter the overt racist tendencies and v{\"o}lkish ideology in Germany, or the belief in the Community of Blood and Fate of the German people, which sharply distinguished between Kultur and civilization and glorified v{\"o}lkisch nationalism over European civilization. The volume includes an analysis of the entire twenty chapters of Auerbach{\textquoteright}s most celebrated book: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946. -- Publisher{\textquoteright}s description}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&AuthType=ip,shib\&db=nlebk\&AN=1242177\&site=ehost-live\&scope=site\&custid=s5122861\&authtype=shib}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3040406, title = {\&$\#$39;Figura\’ and Mimesis in Cultural War: Erich Auerbach\’s Struggle against Aryan Philology (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Et-mol}, volume = {242}, year = {2015}, pages = {19-22}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3040404, title = {The Allegory of the Poem \&$\#$39;Masada\&$\#$39; (In Hebrew)}, journal = {New Direction}, volume = {32}, year = {2015}, pages = {257-270}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3040405, title = {Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of Erich Auerbach\’s Mimesis}, journal = {Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures}, volume = {4}, year = {2015}, pages = {106-133}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035456, title = {Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: An Apologia for the Western Judaeo-Christian Humanist Tradition in an Age of Peril, Tyranny, and Barbarism (In Hebrew)}, year = {2015}, pages = {383}, publisher = {Hakibbutz Hameuchad}, organization = {Hakibbutz Hameuchad}, address = {Tel Aviv}, abstract = {
"פרופ{\textquoteright} אביהו זכאי פורש ומנתח בספר זה את קורות חייו, כתביו ויצירתו של הפילולוג היהודי-גרמני הנודע, אריך אוארבך, בהקשר האידיאולוגי, הפילולוגי וההיסטורי הרחב של העידן הנאצי - במיוחד על רקע העקרונות הפוֹלְקיים, השוביניסטיים, הגזעניים והאנטישמיים של הפילולוגיה הארית. פילולוגיה זו, המבוססת על מיסטיקה פולקיסטית והיסטוריוגרפיה נאצית, שעִ קרו את התנ"ך העברי - {\textquoteright}הברית הישנה{\textquoteright} - מהתרבות הגרמנית ומן הציוויליזציה המערבית בכללותה, הושתתו על גזענות ושוביניזם, על מיתולוגיות של דם, פולק (Volk) ואדמה, ועל {\textquoteright}קהילת הדם והגורל{\textquoteright} של העם הגרמני. הן פיארו את המושג {\textquoteright}תרבות{\textquoteright} גרמנית ודחו את ה{\textquoteright}ציוויליזציה{\textquoteright} האירופית. בתגובה לכך כתב אוארבך את חיבוריו המפורסמים והמהוללים פיגורה ומימזיס, המהווים אפולוגיה (Apologia), כתב ההגנה, על המסורת ההומניסטית היהודית-נוצרית של המערב בזמן שזו עמדה בפני הסכנה הגדולה ביותר לקיומה. בחיבורים אלה, אשר השכילו והפעימו המוני קוראים מאז ראו אור, ביקש אוארבך להציל ולהאדיר את המסורת ההומניסטית המערבית, המבוססת על המורשת היהודית-נוצרית ועל כתבי הקודש היהודיים והנוצריים. זו תרומתו ל{\textquoteright}מאבק התרבות{\textquoteright} (Kulturkampf), אל מול הפלולוגיה הארית והברבריות הנאצית." -- תיאור המו"ל
}, url = {https://kotar.cet.ac.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=103246133}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3040403, title = {Exile and Criticism: Edward Said\’s Interpretation of Erich Auerbach\"}, journal = {Society}, volume = {52}, year = {2015}, pages = {275-282}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9898-y}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035455, title = {Fields in the Wind: A Tribute to Avraham Shapira, in Friendship and Appreciation (In Hebrew)}, year = {2015}, pages = {452}, publisher = {Carmel}, organization = {Carmel}, address = {Jerusalem}, author = {Edited by and Avihu Zakaki and Paul Mendes-Flohr and Zeev Gries} } @inbook {3040401, title = {Introduction (In Hebrew)}, booktitle = {Fields in the Wind: A Tribute to Avraham Shapira, in Friendship and Appreciation}, year = {2015}, pages = {9-11}, publisher = {Carmel}, organization = {Carmel}, address = {Jerusalem}, author = {Zakai, Avihu and Paul Mendes-Flohr} } @inbook {3040402, title = {Masada \– \&$\#$39;Book of Generation and a Perfect Work\&$\#$39; (In Hebrew)}, booktitle = {Fields in the Wind: A Tribute to Avraham Shapira, in Friendship and Appreciation}, year = {2015}, pages = {130-155}, publisher = {Carmel}, organization = {Carmel}, address = {Jerusalem}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3040399, title = {Professor of Exile: Edward Said\’s Misreading of Erich Auerbach}, year = {2014}, url = {https://momentmag.com/edward-said-erich-auerbach/}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048337, title = {After Jonathan Edwards: The Course of the New England Theology, edited by Oliver D. Crisp and Douglas A. Sweeney (Book Review)}, journal = {Journal of Ecclesiastical History}, volume = {65}, year = {2014}, pages = {216-217}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046913000845}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3040400, title = {Exile and Interpretation: On Edward Said\&$\#$39;s Uses and Abuses of Erich Auerbach\&$\#$39;s Works (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Katharsis}, volume = {21}, year = {2014}, pages = {129-151}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035454, title = {Exile and Interpretation: The Shaping of Modern Intellectual History in the Age of Nazism and Barbarism (In Hebrew)}, year = {2014}, pages = {291}, publisher = {Resling Publishing House}, organization = {Resling Publishing House}, address = {Tel Aviv}, abstract = {

"טראומה, בייחוד טראומה פוליטית, תמיד מותירה חותם על היצירות שנכתבו בעקבותיה, למרות מאמצינו להסתיר אותה מאחורי מסך של למדנות ושפה זהירה. ספרם של אביהו זכאי ודוד ווינשטיין דן בכתבים של הנס בארון, אריך אוארבך, ליאו שטראוס וקרל פופר, תוך כדי הצבתם בהקשר החברתי, האידיאולוגי והפוליטי של זמנם. אנשי הרוח היהודים האלה, דוברי הגרמנית, שבדרך כלל לא עוסקים בהם במשותף, נמלטו מיבשת אירופה עם עליית הנאציזם בשנות ה-30. אצל כל אחד ואחד מהם חולל האסון הפוליטי של הפשיזם האירופי גם משבר אינטלקטואלי עמוק, ולכן הם הפכו את עבודותיהם למאבק נגד הנאציזם והפשיזם בשנות ה-30 וה-40.

אוארבך נאבק בפשיזם על ידי דחיית הפילולוגיה הארית; בארון על ידי הפרכת האידיאולוגיה הפולקית של ההיסטוריה; שטראוס באמצעות הפולמוס שלו עם ההיסטוריציזם של מקיאוולי והובס בתור מקור לניהיליזם הפוליטי הגרמני המודרני; ופופר תקף את המהותנות המטפיזית ואת ההיסטוריציזם של אפלטון, מכיוון שבהם ראה את מקורותיו הפילוסופיים של הפשיזם. כתבים אלה חוללו שינוי מרחיק לכת בתחומי התמחותם ובדיסציפלינות השונות של עבודתם. בתחום הפילולוגיה יצא אוארבך בספרו "מימזיס" נגד הברבריזם של הנאצים והמציא את תחום הספרות המשווה; בתחום ההיסטוריה יצר בארון בספרו {\textquoteright}משבר הרנסנס האיטלקי המוקדם{\textquoteright} את המסורת הרפובליקנית האטלנטית בהיסטוריוגרפיה; בתחום תולדות המחשבה המדינית חוללו ספריהם של פופר ({\textquoteright}החברה הפתוחה ואויביה{\textquoteright}) ושל שטראוס ({\textquoteright}הזכות הטבעית וההיסטוריה{\textquoteright}) תמורה עמוקה בפילוסופיה הפוליטית שלאחר מלחמת העולם השנייה - הם תיארו את תקופתם כעידן של שקיעה וניוון ולאו דווקא של נאורות וקדמה" -- תיאור המו"ל

}, author = {Zakai, Avihu and David Weinstein} } @article {3039965, title = {Nature is not mathematics (In Hebrew)}, year = {2012}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039964, title = {Auerbach on the tragic (In Hebrew)}, year = {2012}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/safrut/print/1.1857478}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039963, title = {German Orientalism (In Hebrew)}, year = {2012}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/1.1797381}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039962, title = {Philology and Racism (In Hebrew)}, year = {2012}, url = {https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/safrut/print/1.1684939}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039961, title = {Erich Auerbach and his \&$\#$39;Figura\&$\#$39;: An Apology for the Old Testament in an Age of Aryan Philology}, journal = {Religions}, volume = {3}, year = {2012}, pages = {320-338}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/rel3020320 }, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039959, title = {Bill of Rights}, booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures (Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture)}, volume = {I}, year = {2011}, pages = {346-350}, publisher = {J. B. Metzler}, organization = {J. B. Metzler}, address = {Stuttgart}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039960, title = {The Medieval and Scholastic Dimensions of Edwards\&$\#$39;s Philosophy of Nature}, booktitle = {Jonathan Edwards as Contemporary: Essays in Honor of Sang Hyun Lee}, year = {2011}, pages = {15-31}, publisher = {Peter Lang}, organization = {Peter Lang}, address = {New York}, url = {https://books.google.co.il/books?id=eGW5FoSWmOwC}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035453, title = {Jonathan Edwards\&$\#$39;s Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning}, year = {2010}, pages = {331}, publisher = {T\&T Clark Publication}, organization = {T\&T Clark Publication}, address = {London}, abstract = {Jonathan Edwards{\textquoteright}s Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Its aim is to place Edwards{\textquoteright}s writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical, theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period - John Donne{\textquoteright}s reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, as well as to Francis Bacon{\textquoteright}s new natural philosophy; Blaise Pascal{\textquoteright}s response to Descartes{\textquoteright} mechanical philosophy; the reactions to Newtonian science and finally Jonathan Edwards{\textquoteright}s response to the scientific culture and imagination of his time. -- Publisher{\textquoteright}s Description}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048335, title = {Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic, by Eran Shalev (Book Review) (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Zmanim}, volume = {113}, year = {2010}, pages = {113-116}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039957, title = {The Theological Origins of Jonathan Edwards\&$\#$39;s Philosophy of Nature}, journal = {The Journal of Ecclesiastical History}, volume = {60}, year = {2009}, pages = {708-724}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046909990054}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048334, title = {Apocalypse Then: Prophecy and the Making of the Modern World,\ by Arthur H. Williamson (Book Review)}, journal = {American Historical Review}, volume = {114}, year = {2009}, pages = {421-422}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/30223793}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039958, title = {Leo Strauss: The Exile of Interpretation (In Hebrew)}, journal = {New Trends in German Jewish History}, volume = {13}, year = {2009}, pages = {13-31}, publisher = {Leo Baeck Institute}, address = {Jerusalem}, author = {David Weinstein and Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039955, title = {Exile and Interpretation: Popper\&$\#$39;s Re-Invention of the History of European Political Thought (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Zmanim}, volume = {101}, year = {2008}, pages = {14-27}, author = {David Weinstein and Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035452, title = {History and Apocalypse: Religion and Historical Consciousness in Early Modern History in Europe and America (In Hebrew)}, year = {2008}, pages = {376}, publisher = {Bialik Institute}, organization = {Bialik Institute}, address = {Jerusalem}, abstract = {
האפוקליפסה ניצבת ביסוד גילוי העולם החדש של אמריקה, ביסוד הרפורמציה הפרוטסטנטית של המאה השש-עשרה, המהפכה הפוריטנית של המאה השבע-עשרה והמהפכה האמריקנית של המאה השמונה-עשרה. הספר "היסטוריה ואפוקליפסה" עניינו בקשר ההדוק שבין דפוסי אמונה דתית לעיצובה של תודעה היסטורית בצמתים בולטים אלה של ראשית העת החדשה. לפנינו מכלול של חיבורים המתארים את ההקשרים השונים שבהם חברו היסטוריה ואפוקליפסה ויצרו תפיסות חדשות של מרחב וזמן, המגדירות את העולם המודרני מן המאה השש-עשרה ואילך. הדפוס המהפכני שיצרו הפוריטנים לשילוב אמריקה בתודעה ההיסטורית מציין את ראשית צמיחתה של אידאולוגיה אמריקנית מקורית שרואה בעולם החדש את מרכז ההיסטוריה. תנועות רבות הסתמכו על התפיסה ההיסטורית הזאת כדי להצדיק את הגירתן לאמריקה, ובסוף המאה השמונה-עשרה, עם המהפכה האמריקנית, חל בה חילון. אבל יסודותיה וערכיה נשמרו עד עצם היום הזה - חיזיון של שסע אידאולוגי עמוק שאין לאחותו בין קלקלות העולם הישן ובין בשורת הגאולה הדתית, החברתית והמדינית הצפונה בעולם החדש של אמריקה. -- תיאור המו"ל
}, url = {https://kotar.cet.ac.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=98162024}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039956, title = {The Irony of American History: Reinhold Niebuhr\&$\#$39;s Critique of the American Experience}, journal = {La Revue LISA/LISA e-journal}, year = {2008}, pages = {1-21}, url = {https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/915}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039950, title = {Theocracy}, booktitle = {International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition}, volume = {VIII}, year = {2008}, pages = {342-343}, publisher = {Macmillan}, organization = {Macmillan}, address = {Detroit}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039954, title = {The Rise of Modern Science and the Decline of Theology as the Queen of Sciences in the Early Modern Era}, journal = {Renaissance and Reformation Review}, volume = {9}, year = {2007}, pages = {125-151}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1558/rrr.v9i2.125}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048333, title = {Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America by Peter C. Messer (Book Review)}, journal = {William and Mary Quarterly}, volume = {63}, year = {2006}, pages = {625-628}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/3877385}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048332, title = {Early New England: A Covenanted Society by David A. Weir (Book Review)}, journal = {The Journal of American History}, volume = {93}, year = {2006}, pages = {176-177}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/4486073}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039951, title = {Exile and Interpretation: Popper\&$\#$39;s Re-Invention of the History of European Political Thought}, journal = {Journal of Political Ideologies}, volume = {11}, year = {2006}, pages = {185{\textendash}209}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13569310600687957}, author = {David Weinstein and Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039286, title = {The Age of Enlightenment}, booktitle = {The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards}, year = {2006}, pages = {80-99}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {New York}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039284, title = {Cotton Mather}, booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Witchcraft}, volume = {3}, year = {2006}, pages = {732-734}, publisher = {ABC-CLIO}, organization = {ABC-CLIO}, address = {Santa Barbara}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039285, title = {Goodwin Children}, booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Witchcraft}, volume = {2}, year = {2006}, pages = {452-453}, publisher = {ABC-CLIO}, organization = {ABC-CLIO}, address = {Santa Barbara}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039287, title = {The Irony of American History: Reinhold Niebuhr\&$\#$39;s Critique of the American Experience (In Hebrew)}, booktitle = {The Heart{\textquoteright}s Furrow: A Tribute to Moki Tzur}, year = {2006}, pages = {400-416}, publisher = {Hakibbutz Hameuchad}, organization = {Hakibbutz Hameuchad}, address = {Tel Aviv}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048330, title = {Jonathan Edwards at Home and Abroad: Historical Memories, Cultural Movements, Global Horizons, edited by David W. Kling and Douglas A. Sweeney (Book Review)}, journal = {Journal of Presbyterian History}, volume = {84}, year = {2006}, pages = {185-186}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/23338845}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3048329, title = {Anglo-American Millennialism, From Milton to the Millerites, edited by Richard Connors, Andrew Colin Gow (Book Review)}, journal = {The American Historical Review}, volume = {110}, year = {2005}, pages = {1131-1132}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/ahr.110.4.1131}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039283, title = {Jonathan Edwards, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of Protestant Tradition in America}, booktitle = {The Creation of the British Atlantic World}, year = {2005}, pages = {182-208}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, organization = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, address = {Baltimore}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039281, title = {Jonathan Edwards\&$\#$39;s Philosophy of History}, journal = {History and Theory}, volume = {43}, year = {2004}, pages = {293-294}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046504, title = {Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by G. M. Marsden (Book Review)}, journal = {Journal of American History}, volume = {90}, year = {2004}, pages = {1423-1424}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039282, title = {The Ideological Context of Edwards\&$\#$39;s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God}, journal = {Fides et Historia}, volume = {36}, year = {2004}, pages = {1-18}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039279, title = {Jonathan Edwards}, booktitle = {The New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}, volume = {XVII}, year = {2004}, pages = {944-949}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039280, title = {Refugees, Exiles, and Emigres}, booktitle = {Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World}, volume = {V}, year = {2004}, pages = {161-163}, publisher = {Charles Scribner{\textquoteright}s Sons}, organization = {Charles Scribner{\textquoteright}s Sons}, address = {New York}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039275, title = {Jonathan Edwards\&$\#$39;s Vision of History}, journal = {Historically Speaking}, year = {2003}, pages = {28-30}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3039278, title = {John Calvin}, booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World}, volume = {1}, year = {2003}, pages = {113-115}, publisher = {SAGE Publications}, organization = {SAGE Publications}, address = {Thousand Oaks, CA}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035451, title = {Jonathan Edwards\&$\#$39;s Philosophy of History: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment}, year = {2003}, pages = {348}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton}, abstract = {

Winner of The Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines, The Hebrew University, 2004

Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards{\textquoteright}s redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards{\textquoteright}s intense engagement with the nature of time and the meaning of history, there has been no serious attempt to explore his philosophy of history. Offering the first such exploration, Zakai considers Edwards{\textquoteright}s historical thought as a reaction, in part, to the varieties of Enlightenment historical narratives and their growing disregard for theistic considerations.

Zakai analyzes the ideological origins of Edwards{\textquoteright}s insistence that the process of history depends solely on God{\textquoteright}s redemptive activity in time as manifested in a series of revivals throughout history, reading this doctrine as an answer to the threat posed to the Christian theological teleology of history by the early modern emergence of a secular conception of history and the modern legitimation of historical time. In response to the Enlightenment refashioning of secular, historical time and its growing emphasis on human agency, Edwards strove to re-establish God{\textquoteright}s preeminence within the order of time. Against the de-Christianization of history and removal of divine power from the historical process, he sought to re-enthrone God as the author and lord of history--and thus to re-enchant the historical world.

Placing Edwards{\textquoteright}s historical thought in its broadest context, this book will be welcomed by those who study early modern history, American history, or religious culture and experience in America.\ 

-- Publisher{\textquoteright}s Description

}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400825608}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039277, title = {Religion and Ethics in Early Modern History: Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment Debate on Moral Philosophy (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Zmanim }, volume = {83}, year = {2003}, pages = {28-41}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039274, title = {Yehushua Arieli (In Hebrew)}, journal = {History}, volume = {11}, year = {2003}, pages = {7-8}, author = {Michael Heyd and Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039276, title = {Yehushua Arieli - The Destiny of Man and the Cunning of History (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Zmanim}, volume = {83}, year = {2003}, pages = {3-4}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039273, title = {Yehushua Arieli (1916-2002)}, year = {2002}, url = {https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2002/in-memoriam-yehoshua-arieli}, author = {Walter Nugent and Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3039272, title = {Yehushua Arieli}, volume = {30}, year = {2002}, pages = {21}, author = {Walter Nugent and Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038233, title = {Jonathan Edwards and the Language of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning}, journal = {The Journal of Religious History}, volume = {26}, year = {2002}, pages = {15-41}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.00140}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046503, title = {Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000, by Yaakov Ariel (Book Review)}, journal = {American Jewish Archives}, volume = {54}, year = {2002}, pages = {105-107}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3038236, title = {Religion and Revolution: The Puritan Rhetoric and Democracy in America (In Hebrew)}, booktitle = {Democracy in America}, year = {2002}, pages = {254-285}, publisher = {Zmora Bitan Moden}, organization = {Zmora Bitan Moden}, address = {Tel Aviv}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3038232, title = {From Physics to Metaphysics: The Changing Face of Scientific Imagination (The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Scientific Imagination)}, booktitle = {Expanding Humanity{\textquoteright}s Vision of God}, year = {2001}, pages = {41-51}, publisher = {Templeton Foundation Press}, organization = {Templeton Foundation Press}, address = {Philadelphia}, author = {Avihu Zakai and Ayval Ramati} } @article {3046502, title = {John Clarke and His Legacies: Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island 1638-1750, by Sydney V. James (Book Review)}, journal = {Journal of American History}, volume = {87}, year = {2000}, pages = {199-200}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046501, title = {Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism, by Philip Gould (Book Review)}, journal = {Journal of Presbyterian History}, volume = {77}, year = {1999}, pages = {210}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038231, title = {The Conversion of Jonathan Edwards}, journal = {Journal of Presbyterian History}, volume = {72}, year = {1998}, pages = {127-138}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/23335367}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046500, title = {Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830, by Frank Felsenstein (In Hebrew) (Book Review)}, journal = {Zion}, volume = {62}, year = {1997}, pages = {88-93}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038230, title = {From Judgment to Salvation: The Image of the Jews in Renaissance England}, journal = {Westminster Journal}, volume = {59}, year = {1997}, pages = {213-230}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038227, title = {The Poetics of History and the Destiny of Israel: The Role of the Jews in English Apocalyptic Thought during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Zmanim}, volume = {55}, year = {1996}, pages = {72-91}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046498, title = {Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth Century New England, by Stephen C. Arch (Book Review)}, journal = {The William and Mary Quarterly}, volume = {3}, year = {1996}, pages = {208-210}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3038229, title = {History and Apocalypse of the Puritan Migration to America (In Hebrew)}, booktitle = {Following Columbus: America 1492-1992}, year = {1996}, pages = {227-254}, publisher = {The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History}, organization = {The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History}, address = {Jerusalem}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038226, title = {The Poetics of History and the Destiny of Israel: The Role of the Jews in English Apocalyptic Thought during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries}, journal = {The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy}, volume = {5}, year = {1996}, pages = {313{\textendash}350}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1163/147728596794761782}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046499, title = {Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment, by Michael P. Winship (Book Review)}, journal = {Utopian Studies}, volume = {7}, year = {1996}, pages = {352-354}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038225, title = {Theocracy in Massachusetts: The Puritan Universe of Sacred Imagination}, journal = {Studies in the Literary Imagination}, volume = {27}, year = {1994}, pages = {23-31}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&AuthType=ip,shib\&db=aph\&AN=9412072880\&site=ehost-live\&scope=site\&custid=s5122861\&authtype=shib}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035450, title = {Theocracy in Massachusetts: Reformation and Separation in Early Puritan New England}, year = {1994}, pages = {432}, publisher = {Mellen University Press}, organization = {Mellen University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

This volume explores the eschatological and millennial dimension in the Puritan mind, to show that out of a unique apocalyptic interpretation of history Puritans were not only able to justify their migration to America with sacred, providential history, but also able to define the meaning of their holy experiment in the course of salvation history. As the Puritan emigrants themselves perceived it, their errand into the wilderness was not simply a utopian search for religious reformation but an earthly stand against the power of Satan and Antichrist. -- Publisher{\textquoteright}s description

}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046497, title = {An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, by Neal Gabler (In Hebrew) (Book Review)}, year = {1993}, pages = {8}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038218, title = {Time, History and Eschatology: Ecclesiastical History from Eusebius to Augustine}, journal = {The Journal of Religious History}, volume = {17}, year = {1993}, pages = {393-417}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.1993.tb00732.x}, author = {Avihu Zalai} } @article {3038222, title = {Utopia in America (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Machshavot}, volume = {65}, year = {1993}, pages = {50-63}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046496, title = {On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865 - 1945 by Yaakov Ariel (Book Review)}, journal = {American Jewish Archives}, volume = {45}, year = {1993}, pages = {270-274}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035449, title = {Europe and the New World: The Discovery and Conquest of America by European Powers in the 15th - 17th Centuries (In Hebrew)}, year = {1993}, pages = {517}, publisher = {Akadamon Press}, organization = {Akadamon Press}, address = {Jerusalem}, abstract = {
גילוי אמריקה וכיבושה היה תהליך ממושך בן מאות שנים מבחינה מעית ורוחנית כאחד - חוויה סגולית של גילוי והתמודדות מפרכת עם עולם בלתי נודע, אשר שולב אט אט ביקום הרעיוני ועולם הדמיון של בני אירופה הנוצרית. תיאור תהליך רוחני מורכב וחשוב זה מהווה את התכלית העיקרית שעמדה ביסוד הכנת אסופת המקורות המונחת עתה בידי הקורא. מעניינה הוא להאיר את תהליך {\textquoteright}הגילוי{\textquoteright} הרוחני של העולם החדש של אמריקה ושילובו בעולם המושגים של בני הציביליזציה הנוצרית באירופה, באמצעות שורה ארוכה של תעודות ומקורות שנכתבו על ידי ספנים ומגלי עולם נועזים, הרפתקנים ויזמים רודפי בצע, כובשים ולוחמים אכזריים, מושלים ומדינאים רבי עוצמה, מיסיונרים בעלי השראה ומארטירים רבי הקרבה, חוזים ויוצרי אוטופיות נשגבות, בין המאות החמש עשרה והשבע עשרה.
}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038221, title = {The Marvelous Voyage in Search of the Treasures of the East (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Alpayim}, volume = {7}, year = {1993}, pages = {165-183}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038217, title = {In Search of the Promised Paradise}, year = {1992}, pages = {14}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038216, title = {The Geographies of the Mind (In Hebrew)}, year = {1992}, pages = {12}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038215, title = {Bye Bye Columbus: Why Columbus did not \&$\#$39;Discover America\&$\#$39; (In Hebrew)}, year = {1992}, pages = {26}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046495, title = {Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521-1680, by E. Brooks Holifield (Book Review)}, journal = {Journal of American History}, volume = {79}, year = {1992}, pages = {1132}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @book {3035447, title = {Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America}, year = {1992}, pages = {266}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, abstract = {"This book explores the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to and experience in America, and shows how Puritans believed that their removal to New England fulfilled prophetic apocalyptic and eschatological visions. An apocalyptic ideology of history, as a mode of historical thought, enabled Puritans to reconstruct their removal to America within the confines of sacred, ecclesiastical history. By tracing the ideological origins of the Puritan migration within the context of the English apocalyptic tradition, Dr Zakai shows how Puritans transformed the premises of that tradition by rejecting the notion of England as God{\textquoteright}s elect nation and by conferring that title upon the American wilderness. The Puritan migration is analyzed further within the wider context of Western colonization of America. Dr Zakai shows that the unique characteristics of the Puritan settlement in New England derived from identification with the {\textquoteright}Errand of the Church of the Wilderness{\textquoteright} as described in the Book of Revelation." -- Publisher{\textquoteright}s description}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522888}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038214, title = {Orthodoxy in England and New England: Puritans and the Issue of Religious Toleration, 1640-1650}, journal = {Proceeding of The American Philosophical Society}, volume = {135}, year = {1991}, pages = {401-441}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/986777}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046494, title = {The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, by Michael G. Hall (Book Review)}, journal = {Reviews in American History}, volume = {24}, year = {1989}, pages = {257-259}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/25056783}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038212, title = {Religious Toleration and Its Enemies: The Independent Divines and the Issue of Toleration During the English Civil War}, journal = {Albion}, volume = {21}, year = {1989}, pages = {1-33}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3038213, title = {Thomas Brightman and English Apocalyptic Tradition}, booktitle = {Menasseh ben Israel and his World}, year = {1989}, pages = {31{\textendash}44}, publisher = {Brill}, organization = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004246645_004}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046492, title = {To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism, by Theodora Dwight Bozeman (Book Review)}, journal = {Albion}, volume = {21}, year = {1989}, pages = {492-493}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3185904, title = {Religious Toleration and Its Enemies: The Independent Divines and the Issue of Toleration During the English Civil War}, journal = {Albion}, volume = {21}, year = {1989}, pages = {1-33}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046493, title = {Tom Paine: The Greatest Exile, by David Powell (Book Review)}, journal = {History of European Ideas}, volume = {10}, year = {1989}, pages = {371-372}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3046489, title = {Christian England, Vol. II. From the Reformation to the 18th Century by David L. Edwards (Book Review)}, journal = {History of European Ideas}, volume = {9}, year = {1988}, pages = {233-235}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3038211, title = {Perry Miller}, booktitle = {The Dictionary of Historians}, year = {1988}, pages = {279-281}, publisher = {Basil Blackwell}, organization = {Basil Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038209, title = {Reformation, History, and Eschatology in English Protestantism}, journal = { History and Theory}, volume = {26}, year = {1987}, pages = {300-318}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505065}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038210, title = {Homage to an Historian: Essay in Honor of Prof. Y. Arieli (In Hebrew)}, year = {1987}, pages = {19-20}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038207, title = {Puritan Millennialism and Theocracy in Early Massachusetts}, journal = {History of European Ideas}, volume = {8}, year = {1987}, pages = {309-318}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(87)90004-0}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038208, title = {The Ministers\&$\#$39; View of Church and State}, journal = {Scripta Hierosolymitana; Studies in American Civilization}, volume = {32}, year = {1987}, pages = {1-25}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038206, title = {Theocracy in New England: The Nature and Meaning of the Holy Experiment in the Wilderness}, journal = {The Journal of Religious History}, volume = {14}, year = {1986}, pages = {133-151}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.1986.tb00461.x}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038202, title = {The Gospel of Reformation: The Origins of the Great Puritan Migration}, journal = {The Journal of Ecclesiastical History}, volume = {38}, year = {1986}, pages = {584-602}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @inbook {3038197, title = {The Millennial Quest in the New England Errand into the Wilderness}, booktitle = {Religion, Ideology and Nationalism in Europe and America}, year = {1986}, pages = {187-201}, publisher = {The Historical Society of Israel}, organization = {The Historical Society of Israel}, address = {Jerusalem}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038196, title = {Epiphany at Matadi: Perry Miller\&$\#$39;s Orthodoxy in Massachusetts and the Meaning of American History}, journal = {Reviews in American History}, volume = {13}, year = {1985}, pages = {627-641}, url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/2702601}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @mastersthesis {3038190, title = {Exile and Kingdom: Reformation, Separation, and the Millennial Quest in the Formation of Massachusetts and Its Relationship with England, 1628-1660}, year = {1982}, type = {PhD}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038193, title = {Acquired Rights and Present Ills (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Shdemot }, volume = {37}, year = {1972}, pages = {6-11}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038194, title = {Fundamental Principles in Kant\&$\#$39;s Theory of Ethics (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Basha{\textquoteright}ar: A Social and Cultural Review}, volume = {15}, year = {1972}, pages = {291-301}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038195, title = {Weber\&$\#$39;s Thesis and Criticism (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Basha{\textquoteright}ar: A Social Cultural Review}, volume = {15}, year = {1972}, pages = {158-174}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038192, title = {Exile as a Lost Kingdom: On the Writings of Yehuda Yaari (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Shdemot}, volume = {33}, year = {1971}, pages = {50-56}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} } @article {3038191, title = {Ringing the Bells of Jerusalem (In Hebrew)}, journal = {Shdemot}, volume = {37}, year = {1970}, author = {Zakai, Avihu} }