Rabbi, mystic, or impostor? : the eighteenth-century Ba'al Shem of London / Michal Oron ; translated by Edward Levin ; introduction by Todd M. Endelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oron, Michal, author.

Contributor:

Levin, Edward (Translator), translator.

Liverpool University Press, associated with work.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

De Falk, Samuel Hayyim, approximately 1710-1782.

De Falk, Samuel Hayyim.

De Falk, Samuel Hayyim, approximately 1710-1782--Diaries.

Jews--England--London--History--18th century.

Jews.

Mystics--England--London--History--18th century.

Mystics.

London (England)--Intellectual life--18th century.

London (England).

Genre:

collective biographies.

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2021.

Language Note:

Tranlsated from the Hebrew.

Summary:

The diaries of the eighteenth-century miracle-working Jew Samuel Falk and his assistant, here thoroughly annotated and with a scholarly introduction and informative appendixes, offer an intriguing glimpse of eighteenth-century London and its burgeoning Jewish community on the threshold of the modern era.

Contents:

I. A brief history of Ba'alei Shem

II. A biography of Samuel Falk

III. Falk's activities according to the diary of Zevi Hirsch

IV. Samuel Falk as seen by Jacob Emden

V. Samuel Falk and the Freemasons

VI. The diaries and their research

The diary of Zevi Hirsch of Kalisz

The Diary of Samuel Falk.

Notes:

Translated from the Hebrew.

Published in association with Liverpool University Press.

This translation previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 30, 2021).

ISBN:

1-80034-329-9

1-78962-424-X