Hasidism on the margin : reconciliation, antinomianism, and messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism / Shaul Magid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magid, Shaul, 1958-

Series:

Modern Jewish philosophy and religion. Translations and critical studies.

Modern Jewish philosophy and religion. Translations and critical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hasidism.

Hasidism--Poland--Izbica.

Hasidism--Poland--Radzyn Podlaski.

Judaism and philosophy.

Antinomianism.

Reconciliation.

Messianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 400 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of lzbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh founded in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Biographical Introduction

A Note on Translation

A Note on the Absence of Gender-Inclusive Language

The Piety of Secrecy

Retrieving the Origins of Kabbala

Recircumcising the Torah

What Is Hasidism?

Hasidism and the Hermeneutical Turn

The Redemptive Foundation of Sin

Human Perfection and the Fulfillment of Abrahamic Religion

Reconciliation and Fragmentation

The Law and Its Discontents

In and Around the Law

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-393) and index.

ISBN:

9786612269424

9781282269422

1282269429

9780299192730

0299192733

OCLC:

614457044

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06628 hdl