Hasidism : key questions / Marcin Wodzinski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wodziński, Marcin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hasidism--Historiography.

Hasidism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Innovative and multidisciplinary in approach, this text discusses the most cardinal features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline of Hasidism, one of the most important religious movements of modern Eastern Europe.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Definition

History of a Definition

Sect

Sectarian Features?

Questioning Sectarianism

Grassroots Definitions

Confraternity

Consequences

Conclusions

2. Women

Statements of Identity

Prayer

Pilgrimages

Public Activity

At Home

Were There Any Female Hasidim?

3. Leadership

Tsadik as a Holy Man

Tsadik's Authority: Image vs. Reality

Kvitl

Horizon of Expectations

Who Is a Tsadik?

4. Demography

Early Approximations

Re-evaluation

Extrapolation

5. Geography

Boundaries of Hasidic Expansion

What Stopped Hasidism?

Aharon Halberstam of Biala

Internal Boundaries

Center and Periphery

6. Economy

Images and Their Uses

Doctrine and Its Impact

Method, Sources, Data

How Reliable?

Explications

Limitations

7. End and the Beginning

East-European Jews and the First World War

War's Effect on Hasidism

Migrations: A New Geography

Urbanization

New Ideologies, New Desertions

Hybridization vs. Fundamentalization

Conclusions.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 13, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-063128-7

0-19-063129-5