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Hasidism reappraised /

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 aspect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England)
Otros Autores: Weiss, J. G. (Joseph George), 1918-1969, Rapoport-Albert, Ada
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Portland, Or. : Vallentine Mitchell, ©1996.
Colección:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.