The maiden of Ludmir : a Jewish holy woman and her world / Nathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Ba...
The maiden of Ludmir : a Jewish holy woman and her world / Nathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Ba...
The maiden of Ludmir : a Jewish holy woman and her world / Nathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Bardach.
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Berkeley, Los Angeles : University of California Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N296.8332/ 3
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English
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xix, 310 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Janusz Bardach -- Introduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir -- 1. A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Liturgy Figure -- 2. Writing the Maiden -- 3. Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden -- 4. The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden -- 5. Birth and Childh...
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Berkeley, Los Angeles : University of California Press, 2003.
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California
Date Published
2003.
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"Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe - or charismatic leader - in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and...
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The maiden of Ludmir : a Jewish holy woman and her world / Nathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Bardach.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N296.8332/ 3
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74VKpG0qAAxb
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0520231910 (Cloth : alk. paper)
9780520231917 (Cloth : alk. paper)
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296.8332092
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991019366579702626
