Hasidic studies : essays in history and gender / Ada Rapoport-Albert ; with an introduction by Moshe Rosman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapoport-Albert, Ada, author.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hasidism--History.

Hasidism.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (535 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Ada Rapoport-Albert has been a key partner in the profound transformation of the history of hasidism that has taken shape over the past few decades. The essays in this volume show the erudition and creativity of her contribution. Written over a period of forty years, they have been updated with regard to significant detail and to take account of important works of scholarship written after they were originally published.

Contents:

Part I. History. Becoming a movement

1. Hasidism after 1772: structural continuity and change conceptualizing leadership

2. God and the tsadik as the two focal points of Hasidic worship

3. Confession in the circle of R. Nahman of Bratslav fashioning the past

4. Hagiography with footnotes: edifying tales and the writing of history in Hasidism

Part II. Gender. Women out? 5. From prophetess to madwoman: the displacement of female spirituality in the post-Sabbatian era

6. On women in Hasidism: S.A. Horodetsky and the maid of Ludmir tradition

Women In? 7. The emergence of a female constituency in twentieth-century Habad Hasidism

8. From woman as Hasid to woman as 'tsadik' in the teachings of the last two Lubavitcher Rebbes.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Liverpool: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 2, 2021).

ISBN:

1-80034-341-8

1-78694-947-4

OCLC:

1039917928