Concealing the concealment: the politics of the esoteric -- Avoiding place: apophatic embodiment -- Semiotic transubstantiation of the somatic -- Messianic Torah: hypernomian transvaluation -- Female encircles male: gender transposition -- Apocalyptic crossing: beyond the (non)J…
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Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasid…
"This book uses interviews with people who have left the Lubavitch and Satmar sects of Judaism to explore how people build a new identity after being raised in an ultra-orthodox worldview. The transition is an ongoing process where exiters navigate many links to their old life"--
"This book uses interviews with people who have left the Lubavitch and Satmar sects of Judaism to explore how people build a new identity after being raised in an ultra-orthodox worldview. The transition is an ongoing process where exiters navigate many links to their old life"--
"This book uses interviews with people who have left the Lubavitch and Satmar sects of Judaism to explore how people build a new identity after being raised in an ultra-orthodox worldview. The transition is an ongoing process where exiters navigate many links to their old life"-
"This book uses interviews with people who have left the Lubavitch and Satmar sects of Judaism to explore how people build a new identity after being raised in an ultra-orthodox worldview. The transition is an ongoing process where exiters navigate many links to their old life"-…
"This book uses interviews with people who have left the Lubavitch and Satmar sects of Judaism to explore how people build a new identity after being raised in an ultra-orthodox worldview. The transition is an ongoing process where exiters navigate many links to their old life"--
The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"
The book looks at the history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady.