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Hasidism
A New History
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David Biale
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Afterword by:
Arthur Green
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism
This 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.
Author / Editor information
David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. David Assaf is professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University. Benjamin Brown is professor of Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Uriel Gellman is lecturer in Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University. Samuel Heilman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Moshe Rosman is professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University. Gadi Sagiv is senior lecturer in Jewish history at the Open University of Israel. Marcin Wodziński is professor of Jewish studies at the University of Wrocław.
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"Enormously informative, monumental volume."---George Prochnik, Los Angeles Review of Books
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"These eight modern sages managed to produce a fascinating book that embodies their collective wisdom and style in a seamless and highly illuminating work of authorship. This, too, strikes me as something of a miracle."---Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal
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"The book is notable for smashing various well-worn myths about Hasidism, and presenting new insights that place the movement at the center of European Jewish history, a major shaper of that history rather than a marginal aberration."---Sue Fishkoff, Jweekly
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"For this remarkably well-researched and expansive history of Hasidism, a team of scholars has collaborated to produce an intelligent and eminently readable exploration of a branch of Judaism that has made an extraordinary mark on Jewish life. . . . This effort is rich with detail and insight, and captures the vibrancy and innovation of a thriving, multifaceted movement. It belongs on the bookshelf of any serious student of Jewish history."
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"Hasidism: A New History . . . is a monumental scholarly achievement and a great contribution to the understanding of one of the most important movements in Jewish life in the modern period."---Moshe Halbertal, New York Review of Books
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"Hasidism . . . is a tremendous work of research."---Shalom Auslander, Times Literary Supplement
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"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018"
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Annotation
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Introduction: Hasidism as a Modern Movement
1 - SECTION 1 - ORIGINS: The Eighteenth Century
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Hasidism’s Birthplace
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Ba’al Shem Tov: Founder of Hasidism?
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From Circle to Court: The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism’s First Opponents
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Ukraine
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Lithuania, White Russia, and the Land of Israel
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Galicia and Central Poland
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Ethos
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Rituals
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Institutions
222 - SECTION 2 - GOLDEN AGE: The Nineteenth Century
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Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century
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A Golden Age within Two Empires
263 - PART I. VARIETIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HASIDISM
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In the Empire of the Tsars: Russia
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In the Empire of the Tsars: Poland
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Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina
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Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary
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“A Little townlet on Its Own”: The Hasidic Court and Its Inhabitants
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Between Shtibl and Shtetl
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Book Culture
457 - PART III. RELATIONS WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD
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Haskalah and Its Successors
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The State and Public Opinion
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The Crisis of Modernity
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Neo- Hasidism
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Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
575 - PART I. BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
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War and Revolution
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In a Sovereign Poland
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Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
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America and the Land of Israel
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Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust
652 - PART II. POSTWAR PHOENIX: HASIDISM AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
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America: Hasidism’s Goldene Medinah
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The State of Israel: Haven in Zion
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Hasidic Society
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Hasidic Culture
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In the Eyes of Others: Hasidism in Contemporary Culture
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Afterword
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Annotated Bibliography
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About the Authors
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Rebbe; Hasid (term); Jews; Baal Shem Tov; Kabbalah; Maggid; Menachem Mendel Schneerson; Chabad; Haskalah; Zionism; Yiddish; Shlomo; Ruzhin (Hasidic dynasty); Literature; Modernity; Moses; Satmar (Hasidic dynasty); Judaism; Bratslav; Land of Israel; Haredi Judaism; Schneersohn; Torah study; Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty); Lurianic Kabbalah; Isaac Luria; Jewish history; Religion; Agudat Yisrael; Writing; Eastern Europe; Asceticism; Horowitz; Devekut; Volhynia; Messianism; Aleksander (Hasidic dynasty); Twersky; The Other Hand; Orthodox Judaism; Congress Poland; Shtetl; World War I; Pale of Settlement; Lithuania; Talmud; World War II; Maskil; Chortkov (Hasidic dynasty); Persecution; Shekhinah; Interwar period; Rabbi; Avraham Yehoshua Heschel; Tax; Teitelbaum; Ideology; Mikveh; Simhah; Secularism; Hagiography; Podolia; Trisk (Hasidic dynasty); Tefillin; Martin Buber; Bobov (Hasidic dynasty); Jewish mysticism; Shabbat; The Various; Minyan
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
