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My life in Jewish renewal : a memoir / Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi ; with Edward Hoffman.
Van Pelt Library BM755.S2495 A3 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 1924-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 1924-2014.
- Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman.
- Rabbis--United States--Biography.
- Rabbis.
- Jewish renewal.
- History.
- United States.
- Jewish renewal--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2012]
- Contents:
- Origins
- A Viennese boyhood
- Austria under Hitler
- Diamond-cutting & hasidim in Antwerp
- War : French internment camps
- Revelations in Marseilles
- Voyage to America
- Encountering the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe
- The making of a hasid
- A fledgling hasidic rabbi : outreach in New Haven
- Raising the klippot in Rochester, New York
- My own pulpit in Fall River, Massachussetts
- Caribbean travels : voodoo & mitzvah missions
- Widening horizons : from New Bedford to Boston University
- Jewish innovation in Manitoba
- Adventures with Catholic monasticism
- My first trip to the Holy Land
- Qumran, USA : my plan for Jewish communality
- Hasidic counseling : new explorations
- Psychedelics with Timothy Leary
- My friend Thomas Merton & the ecumenical quest
- Walks with Abraham Maslow
- Abraham Heschel : my mentor & friend
- Leaving Chabad : the fallout from my Washington, DC lecture
- The San Francisco counter-culture & neo-hasidism
- Moving to Philadelphia : the founding of P'nai Or
- Epilogue : whither Jewish renewal?
- Gerald Heard, my "Irish rebbe"
- Rabbi Heschel Matt
- Breakthroughs in Milwaukee
- The Dalai Lama
- Unfulfilled projects.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442213272
- 1442213272
- 9781442213296
- 1442213299
- OCLC:
- 761852207
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