Piety and Rebellion : Essays in Hasidism / Shaul Magid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magid, Shaul, Author.

Series:

New perspectives in post-Rabbinic Judaism.

New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hasidism--History.

Hasidism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice. Many of the essays exhibit a comparative perspective deployed to better articulate the innovative spirit, and traditional challenges, Hasidism presents to the traditional Jewish world. Piety and Rebellion is an attempt to present Hasidism as one case whereby maximalist religion can yield a rebellious challenge to conventional conceptions of religious thought and practice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction - My Way to (Neo) Ḥasidism

Early Ḥasidism

Chapter 1. "What happened, happened": R. Ya'akov Yosef of Polonnoye on Ḥasidic Interpretation

Chapter 2. The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the Ẓaddik in Early Ḥasidism

Chapter 3. The Intolerance of Tolerance: Maḥaloket (Controversy) and Redemption in Early Ḥasidism

Chapter 4. The Ritual Is Not the Hunt: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Jewish Ritual as Fantasy in R. Shneur Zalman of Liady

Chapter 5. Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav's "The Tale of the Seven Beggars"

Later Ḥasidism

Chapter 6. Modernity as Heresy: The Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth's Shomer Emunim

Chapter 7. The Holocaust as Inverted Miracle: R. Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the Divine Nature of Radical Evil

Chapter 8. The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Ḥabad Messianism

Chapter 9. Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira's Eish Kodesh

Chapter 10. American Jewish Fundamentalism: Ḥabad, Satmar, ArtScroll

Index of Sources

Index of Names

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

1-61811-752-1

OCLC:

1135614560