The Besht: magician, mystic, and leader
"By combining some oldest questions with new sources and methodologies, Hasidism: Key Questions provides a refreshingly new look at many central issues in historiography of Hasidism: its definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline. This is t…
"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady."
"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"
'Hasidism Incarnate' argues that much of modern Judaism in the west developed under what it calls a 'Christian gaze', that is, reacting to Christianity by defending Judaism, positing that Judaism is unlike Christianity. This is done, ironically, while modern Judaism is being con…