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Hasidism : a new history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Biale, David, 1949- (Author), Assaf, David (Author), Brown, Benjamin, 1966- (Author), Gellman, Uriel (Author), Heilman, Samuel C. (Author), Rosman, Moshe (Author), Sagiv, Gad (Author), Wodziński, Marcin (Author)
Other Authors: Green, Arthur, 1941- (writer of afterword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Hasidism > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Hasidism's birthplace
  • Ba'al Shem Tov: founder of Hasidism?
  • From circle to court
  • The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's first opponents
  • Ukraine
  • Lithuania, white Russia, and the land of Israel
  • Galicia and central Poland
  • Ethos
  • Rituals
  • Institutions
  • A golden age within two empires
  • In the empire of the tsars: Russia
  • In the empire of the tsars: Poland
  • Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina
  • Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary
  • "A little townlet on its own": the court and its inhabitants
  • Between Shtibl and Shtetl
  • Book culture
  • Haskalah and its successors
  • The state and public opinion
  • The crisis of modernity
  • Neo-Hasidism
  • War and revolution
  • In a sovereign Poland
  • Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
  • America and the land of Israel
  • Khurbn: Hasidism and 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.