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Studying Hasidism : Sources, Methods, Perspectives / Marcin Wodzinski.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hasidism--History.
- Hasidism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly interest in Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic Jews is growing, but there is no textbook dedicated to research methods in the field, nor sources for the history of Hasidism have been properly recognized. Studying Hasidism, edited by Marcin Wodzinski, an internationally recognized historian of Hasidism, aims to remedy this gap. The work's thirteen chapters each draws upon a set of different sources, many of them previously untapped, including folklore, music, big data, and material culture to demonstrate what is still to be achieved in the study of Hasidism. Ultimately, this textbook presents research methods that can decentralize the role community leaders play in the current literature and reclaim the everyday lives of Hasidic Jews.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Transcription and Place Names
- Ad fontes: Introduction / Wodziński, Marcin
- 1. Homilies / Sagiv, Gadi
- 2. Halakhah / Cooper, Levi
- 3. Stories / Gellman, Uriel
- 4. Mitnagedim / Gellman, Uriel
- 5. Maskilim / Wodziński, Marcin
- 6. Ego-Documents / Wodziński, Marcin
- 7. Folk Narratives / Hasan-Rokem, Galit / Magid, Shaul
- 8. Archives / Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan
- 9. Press / Assaf, David
- Iconography / Katz, Maya Balakirsky
- 11. Music / Seroussi, Edwin
- 12. Material Culture / Levin, Vladimir
- 13. Big Data / Wodziński, Marcin
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-0425-3
- OCLC:
- 1124761653
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