"This is the first complete and academic English translation of the Me'or 'Eynayim ("The Light of the Eyes"), a collection of Hasidic homilies following the order of the Torah portions, written by Rabbi Menachem Nochum Twersky of Chernobyl (1730-1797). First published in 1798, i…
"This is the first complete and academic English translation of the Me'or 'Eynayim ("The Light of the Eyes"), a collection of Hasidic homilies following the order of the Torah portions, written by Rabbi Menachem Nochum Twersky of Chernobyl (1730-1797). First published in 1798, i…
Hasidism is an influential spiritual revival movement within Judaism that began in the eighteenth century and continues to thrive today. One of the great classics of early Hasidism, The Light of the Eyes is a collection of homilies on the Torah, reading the entire Five Books of …
Hasidism is an influential spiritual revival movement within Judaism that began in the eighteenth century and continues to thrive today. One of the great classics of early Hasidism, The Light of the Eyes is a collection of homilies on the Torah, reading the entire Five Books of …
"This is the first complete and academic English translation of the Me'or 'Eynayim ("The Light of the Eyes"), a collection of Hasidic homilies following the order of the Torah portions, written by Rabbi Menachem Nochum Twersky of Chernobyl (1730-1797). First published in 1798, i…
"This is the first complete and academic English translation of the Me'or 'Eynayim ("The Light of the Eyes"), a collection of Hasidic homilies following the order of the Torah portions, written by Rabbi Menachem Nochum Twersky of Chernobyl (1730-1797). First published in 1798, i…
"Motivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. Although these depictions could…
"Motivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. Although these depictions could…
Motivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. Although these depictions could …
"Motivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. Although these depictions could…
"Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since its near decimation in the Holocaust and Soviet communism. These Hasidim, now settled primarily in North America and Israel have reversed the losses they suffered and rebuilt th…
Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they …
"Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since its near decimation in the Holocaust and Soviet communism. These Hasidim, now settled primarily in North America and Israel have reversed the losses they suffered and rebuilt th…
This is an account of five contemporary Hasidic dynasties and their complex process of succession. Two dynasties, Munkács and Boyan, describe a situation with too few successors, two, Bobov and Satmar, with too many, and one, Lubavitch, where the Hasidim deny a need for a succes…
"Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since its near decimation in the Holocaust and Soviet communism. These Hasidim, now settled primarily in North America and Israel have reversed the losses they suffered and rebuilt th…
"Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since its near decimation in the Holocaust and Soviet communism. These Hasidim, now settled primarily in North America and Israel have reversed the losses they suffered and rebuilt th…
