Hasidism : : A New History /

Hasidism : : A New History / / Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodziński, David Biale, Moshe Rosman, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, David Assaf.

The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis 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 lea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Biale, David,
Assaf, David,
Brown, Benjamin,
Heilman, Samuel,
Rosman, Moshe,
Sagiv, Gadi,
Wodziński, Marcin,
MitwirkendeR:
Biale, David,
Green, Arthur,
TeilnehmendeR:
Green, Arthur.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (896 p.) :; 60 halftones. 12 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Annotation
  • Introduction: Hasidism as a Modern Movement
  • SECTION 1 - ORIGINS: The Eighteenth Century
  • PART I. BEGINNINGS
  • Hasidism's Birthplace
  • Ba'al Shem Tov: Founder of Hasidism?
  • From Circle to Court: The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's First Opponents
  • PART II. FROM COURT TO MOVEMENT
  • Ukraine
  • Lithuania, White Russia, and the Land of Israel
  • Galicia and Central Poland
  • PART III. BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
  • Ethos
  • Rituals
  • Institutions
  • SECTION 2 - GOLDEN AGE: The Nineteenth Century
  • Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century
  • A Golden Age within Two Empires
  • PART I. VARIETIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HASIDISM
  • In the Empire of the Tsars: Russia
  • In the Empire of the Tsars: Poland
  • Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina
  • Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary
  • PART II. INSTITUTIONS
  • "A Little townlet on Its Own": The Hasidic Court and Its Inhabitants
  • Between Shtibl and Shtetl
  • Book Culture
  • PART III. RELATIONS WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD
  • Haskalah and Its Successors
  • The State and Public Opinion
  • The Crisis of Modernity
  • Neo- Hasidism
  • SECTION 3 - DEATH AND RESURRECTION: The Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries
  • Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • PART I. BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
  • War and Revolution
  • In a Sovereign Poland
  • Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
  • America and the Land of Israel
  • Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust
  • PART II. POSTWAR PHOENIX: HASIDISM AFTER 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
  • Afterword
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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