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Hasidism : a new history /

The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's le...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Biale, David, 1949- (Autor), Assaf, David (Autor), Brown, Benjamin, 1966- (Autor), Gellman, Uriel (Autor), Heilman, Samuel C. (Autor), Rosman, Moshe (Autor), Sagiv, Gad (Autor), Wodziński, Marcin (Autor)
Otros Autores: Green, Arthur, 1941- (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hasidism's birthplace
  • Ba'al Shem Tov: founder of Hasidism?
  • From circle to court
  • The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's first opponents
  • Ukraine
  • Lithuania, white Russia, and the land of Israel
  • Galicia and central Poland
  • Ethos
  • Rituals
  • Institutions
  • A golden age within two empires
  • In the empire of the tsars: Russia
  • In the empire of the tsars: Poland
  • Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina
  • Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary
  • "A little townlet on its own": the court and its inhabitants
  • Between Shtibl and Shtetl
  • Book culture
  • Haskalah and its successors
  • The state and public opinion
  • The crisis of modernity
  • Neo-Hasidism
  • War and revolution
  • In a sovereign Poland
  • Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
  • America and the land of Israel
  • Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust
  • America: Hasidism's Goldene Medinah
  • The state of Israel: haven in Zion
  • Hasidic society
  • Hasidic culture
  • In the eyes of others: Hasidism in contemporary culture.