Hasidism : writings on devotion, community, and life in the modern world / edited by Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shankoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayse, Ariel Evan, editor.

Berrin Shankoff, Sam, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)

Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought

The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hasidism.

Hasidism--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Emergence, Challenge, and Renewal (1736-1815)

1. The Ba'al Shem Tov: Disciples and Descendants

2. Yiddish Supplications (Tkhines)

3. Dov Ber of Mezritsh

4. The Brody Proclamation of 1772

5. The Maggid's Family

6. Chernobil and Zhitomir

7. Shmuel and Pinhas Horowitz, Levi Yitshak of Barditshev, and 'Uziel Meizels

8. Hasidism in Lithuania, White Russia, and Tiberias

9. Nahman of Bratslav

10. Beyond the Maggid's Circle

11. Early Hasidism in Poland

II. Ascendancy and Dominance (1815-1881)

12. Avraham Yehoshu'a Heschel of Apt

13. The Dynasties of Ruzhin and Talna

14. Menahem Mendel Schneersohn

15. Kalonymos Kalman Epstein of Kraków

16. Hayim Halberstam and Sandz Hasidism

17. Malkah Rokeah of Belz and Eydel Rubin of Brody

18. The Dynasties of Dinov, Zhidachov, and Komarno

19. The Dynasties of Pshiskhe, Kotsk, Izhbits, and Ger

III. Decline, Renaissance, and Destruction (1881-1945)

20. Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter

21. Sokhachev and Ger

22. Tsadok ha-Kohen of Lublin

23. Munkatsh Hasidism

24. Toledot Aharon

25. Sholom Dovber Schneersohn

26. The Hasidic Yeshivah

27. Sarah Schenirer

28. Three Hasidic Memoirs: Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Yitshak Nahum Twersky, and Malkah Shapira

29. The Belzer Rebbe's Sermon and Holocaust Testimonies

30. The Rebbe of Piaseczno

IV. Renewal and Reconstruction (1945-Present)

31. Hasidic Theology and the Holocaust

32. Zionist Hasidism

33. Satmar Hasidism

34. The Seventh Rebbe of Chabad

35. Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky

36. Slonim Hasidism in Jerusalem

37. Voices of Contemporary Hasidic Women

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9781684580187

1684580188

Publisher Number:

40030070259

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