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Hasidism

A New History

David Assaf, Gadi Sagiv, Benjamin Brown, et al.

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Sachbuch / Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke

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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.

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Lithuania, Orthodox Judaism, Satmar (Hasidic dynasty), Shabbat, Isaac Luria, Modernity, Maggid, Chabad, Simhah, Land of Israel, The Various, Literature, Devekut, Twersky, Haskalah, Minyan, Agudat Yisrael, Tax, Shtetl, Mezhbizh (Hasidic dynasty), Avraham Yehoshua Heschel, Secularism, Pale of Settlement, Yiddish, Mikveh, Schneersohn, Zionism, Horowitz, Moses, Jews, Kabbalah, Lurianic Kabbalah, Eastern Europe, Hasid (term), Congress Poland, Interwar period, Ideology, Talmud, Volhynia, Martin Buber, Bratslav, Podolia, Shlomo, Baal Shem Tov, Bobov (Hasidic dynasty), Writing, Shekhinah, The Other Hand, World War I, Tefillin, Aleksander (Hasidic dynasty), Religion, Haredi Judaism, World War II, Ruzhin (Hasidic dynasty), Torah study, Hagiography, Asceticism, Judaism, Jewish mysticism, Rabbi, Persecution, Trisk (Hasidic dynasty), Chortkov (Hasidic dynasty), Messianism, Rebbe, Jewish history, Maskil, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Teitelbaum