chap. 1. Background of the early-nineteenth-century messianic awakening -- chap. 2. Belief in 5600 (1840) as the year of redemption -- chap. 3. Immigration to the land of Israel, 1808-1840 -- chap. 4. Process of redemption envisioned by the Vilna Ga'on's disciples -- chap. 5. Attempt to renew rabbinic ordination in Safed -- chap. 6. "Raising the shekhinah from the dust" by rebuilding Jerusalem -- chap. 7. Expanding and solidifying Jewish settlement in the land of Israel -- chap. 8. Crisis of faith in the wake of unfulfilled expectations -- chap. 9. Retreat from the idea of "redemption through return to Zion" -- Epilogue. Emergence of a Jewish majority in Jerusalem
Summary
Arie Morgenstern argues the roots of modern Zionism go back to a group of messianic Jews in the early 1800s. Morgenstern shows how the belief in the messianic modern significance of the year 1940 spurred immigration to Israel by Jews from all over the world
Notes
Translated from the Hebrew
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index
