Zealotry and Vengeance: Quest of a Religious Identity Group

by Samuel Peleg

On November 4, 1995 the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin left Israeli society shocked and bewildered by the reemergence of religiously motivated political violence in an age of secularism. In Zealotry and Vengeance Samuel Peleg analyzes the social, political, and structural motivations and conditions that have encouraged this resurgence of religious violence. It profiles the rise of the Zionist messianic movement from protest and activism to assassination,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739103326
• ISBN13: 9780739103326
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"