1 option
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady : the origins of Chabad Hasidism / Immanuel Etkes.
Van Pelt Library BM755.S525 E855 2015
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Etkes, I.
- Series:
- Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
- The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shneur Zalman, of Lyady, 1745-1812.
- Shneur Zalman.
- Rabbis--Belarus--Biography.
- Rabbis.
- Hasidim--Belarus--Biography.
- Hasidim.
- Habad--History.
- Habad.
- History.
- Belarus.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 344 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham. Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady's rise to leadership
- A leader of Hasidim
- Between center and periphery
- Sefer Shel Beinonim: the Book of Average Men
- On the front line against the mitnagdim: excommunications and prohibitions
- At the front versus the mitnagdim: the first imprisonment
- At the front against the mitnagdim: the second arrest
- Zaddikim as human beings: the conflict with Rabbi Abraham of Kalisk
- Between Napoleon and Alexander.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611686777
- 1611686776
- 1611686792
- 9781611686791
- OCLC:
- 877371459
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.