Hasidism : A New History / David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodziński.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biale, David, author.

Assaf, David, author.

Brown, Benjamin, author.

Heilman, Samuel C., author.

Rosman, Moshe, author.

Sagiv, Gad, author.

Wodziński, Marcin, author.

Contributor:

Green, Arthur, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hasidism--History.

Hasidism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (891 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world.Hasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement began to spread. Challenging the notion that Hasidism ceased to be a creative movement after the eighteenth century, this book argues that its first golden age was in the nineteenth century, when it conquered new territory, won a mass following, and became a mainstay of Jewish Orthodoxy. World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Holocaust decimated eastern European Hasidism. But following World War II, the movement enjoyed a second golden age, growing exponentially. Today, it is witnessing a remarkable renaissance in Israel, the United States, and other countries around the world.Written by an international team of scholars, Hasidism is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments / Biale, David

Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Annotation

Introduction: Hasidism as a Modern Movement

SECTION 1 - ORIGINS: The Eighteenth Century

PART I. BEGINNINGS

Hasidism's Birthplace

Ba'al Shem Tov: Founder of Hasidism?

From Circle to Court: The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's First Opponents

PART II. FROM COURT TO MOVEMENT

Ukraine

Lithuania, White Russia, and the Land of Israel

Galicia and Central Poland

PART III. BELIEFS AND PRACTICES

Ethos

Rituals

Institutions

SECTION 2 - GOLDEN AGE: The Nineteenth Century

Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century

A Golden Age within Two Empires

PART I. VARIETIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HASIDISM

In the Empire of the Tsars: Russia

In the Empire of the Tsars: Poland

Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina

Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary

PART II. INSTITUTIONS

"A Little townlet on Its Own": The Hasidic Court and Its Inhabitants

Between Shtibl and Shtetl

Book Culture

PART III. RELATIONS WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD

Haskalah and Its Successors

The State and Public Opinion

The Crisis of Modernity

Neo- Hasidism

SECTION 3 - DEATH AND RESURRECTION: The Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries

Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

PART I. BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II

War and Revolution

In a Sovereign Poland

Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania

America and the Land of Israel

Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust

PART II. POSTWAR PHOENIX: HASIDISM AFTER THE HOLOCAUST

America: Hasidism's Goldene Medinah

The State of Israel: Haven in Zion

Hasidic Society

Hasidic Culture

In the Eyes of Others: Hasidism in Contemporary Culture

Afterword / Green, Arthur

Annotated Bibliography

About the Authors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400889198

1400889197

OCLC:

1132667504