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Untold tales of the Hasidim : crisis & discontent in the history of Hasidism /

This fascinating volume reveals some of the dark, dramatic episodes concealed in the folds of the hasidic cloak--shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism. Using tools of detection, Assaf extracts historical truth from a variety of sources by examining how the same events are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Assaf, David (Autor)
Otros Autores: Ordan, Dena (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: Waltham, Massachusetts : Hanover [New Hampshire] : Brandeis University Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2010]
Colección:Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. "Lies My Teacher Told Me": Hasidic History as a Battlefield
  • Orthodox Historiography's Strategies of Memory and Repression
  • "I Too am not Objective": History as It Should Have Been
  • 2. Apostate or Saint? In the Footsteps of Moshe, the Son of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyady
  • "Would That my Parents Had Been Cruel": Straying Children of Zaddikim and Rabbis
  • "And to Anger You I Will Convert": Parent-Child Relations and Conversion
  • Polemic and Apologetic Memory
  • "He Has Regained His Former Strength": Moshe Prior to His Conversion
  • Leon Yulievich or Piotr Aleksandrovich? The Archival Testimony
  • "He Had Done so in Sane, Sound Mind": Maskilic Memory Traditions
  • "He was in His Right Mind": The Apostates' Testimony
  • In the Historian's Workshop
  • "The Time Has Come for Moshe's Story to be Revealed": Hasidic Memory Traditions
  • "He First Lost His Mind and Then Left His Faith"
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