Hasidism : a new history / David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilma...
Hasidism : a new history / David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilma...
Hasidism : a new history / David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, and Marcin Wodzinski ; with an afterword by Arthur Green.
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Publisher
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Call Numbers
GQ 2018/0483
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 875 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: Hasidism as a modern movement -- Section 1. Origins: The Eighteenth Century -- Part I. Beginnings : -- 1. Hasidism's birthplace -- 2. Ba'al Shem Tov: founder of Hasidism? -- 3. From circle to court: the Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's first opponents -- Part II. From Court to Movemen...
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Publisher
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
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 for...
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Full title
Hasidism : a new history / David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, and Marcin Wodzinski ; with an afterword by Arthur Green.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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GQ 2018/0483
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74VKVomydPQd
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ISBN
0190631287
9780691175157 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691175152 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780190631260
0190631260
9780190631291
0190631295
9780190631284
DDC
296.833209
MMS ID
991024165591002626
