Hasidism reappraised
by Rapoport-Albert, Ada Weiss, J. G., (Joseph George)
Hasidism has been a seminal force and source of controversy in the Jewish world since its inception in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, the first comprehensive critical study of this intriguing movement in English, offers a wide-ranging treatment of the subject in all its aspects by what is effectively the entire present generation of scholars working in the field. With contributions ranging from the history of theology and ideas through social and economic history to socio…
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- Full title :Hasidism reappraised / edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert.
Summary
Hasidism has been a seminal force and source of controversy in the Jewish world since its inception in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, the first comprehensive critical study of this intriguing movement in English, offers a wide-ranging treatment of the subject in all its aspects by what is effectively the entire present generation of scholars working in the field. With contributions ranging from the history of theology and ideas through social and economic history to sociology, Hasidism Reappraised encompasses a complete field of contemporary scholarship in a discipline that is central to our understanding of modern Jewish history and the contemporary Jewish world.
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- Publication Date:©1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vallentine Mitchell
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 514 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781909821712, 1909821713
- oclc:ocn605742520
- LC Classification:BM198.3
- Dewey Decimal:296.8332
Table of Contents
Introduction / Ada Rapoport-Albert -- 1. Joseph G. Weiss: A Personal Appraisal / Jacob Katz -- 2. Joseph Weiss: Letters to Ora / Sara Ora Heller Wilensky -- 3. The Conditions in Jewish Society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Middle Decades of the Eighteenth Century / Gershon David Hundert -- 4. Social Conflicts in Miedzyboz in the Generation of the Besht / Moshe J. Rosman -- 5. Hasidism and the Kahal in Eastern Europe / Shmuel Ettinger -- 6. Hasidism after 1772: Structural Continuity and Change / Ada Rapoport-Albert -- 7. The Hasidic Managing Editor as an Agent of Culture / Zeev Gries -- 8. The Zaddik: The Interrelationship between Religious Doctrine and Social Organization / Immanuel Etkes -- 9. The Paradigms of Yesh and Ayin in Hasidic Thought / Rachel Elior -- 10. Walking as a Sacred Duty: Theological Transformation of Social Reality in Early Hasidism / Elliot R. Wolfson -- 11. Hasidism and the Dogma of the Decline of the Generations / Louis Jacobs.
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