Founder Of Hasidism

Author : Moshe Rosman,Murray Jay Rosman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 052091676X

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Founder of Hasidism by Moshe Rosman,Murray Jay Rosman Pdf

This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer--known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht--the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of the key figures in Jewish history; to understand him is to understand an essential element of modern Jewish life and religion. Because evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal, the Besht has long eluded historians and biographers. Much of what is believed about him is based on stories compiled more than a generation after his death, many of which serve to mythologize rather than describe their subject. Rosman's study casts a bright new light on the traditional stories about the Besht, confirming and augmenting some, challenging others. By concentrating on accounts attributable directly to the Besht or to contemporary eyewitnesses, Rosman provides a portrait drawn from life rather than myth. In addition, documents in Polish and Hebrew discovered by Rosman during the research for this book enable him to give the first detailed description of the cultural, social, economic, and political context of the Ba'al Shem Tov's life.

Author : David Biale,David Assaf,Benjamin Brown,Uriel Gellman,Samuel Heilman,Moshe Rosman,Gadi Sagiv,Marcin Wodziński
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691202440

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Hasidism by David Biale,David Assaf,Benjamin Brown,Uriel Gellman,Samuel Heilman,Moshe Rosman,Gadi Sagiv,Marcin Wodziński Pdf

A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movement 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. Today, Hasidism is witnessing a remarkable renaissance around the world. This book provides the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. Written by an international team of scholars, its unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history 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.

Author : Immanuel Etkes
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611683066

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The Besht by Immanuel Etkes Pdf

Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism

Author : Immanuel Etkes
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611686777

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Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady by Immanuel Etkes Pdf

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus played, and continues to play, an important part in the modernization processes and postwar revitalization of Orthodox Jewry. Drawing on historical source materials that include Shneur Zalman's own works and correspondence, as well as documents concerning his imprisonment and interrogation by the Russian authorities, Etkes focuses on Zalman's performance as a Hasidic leader, his unique personal qualities and achievements, and the role he played in the conflict between Hasidim and its opponents. In addition, Etkes draws a vivid picture of the entire generation that came under Rabbi Shneur Zalman's influence. This comprehensive biography will appeal to scholars and students of the history of Hasidism, East European Jewry, and Jewish spirituality.

Author : Mor Altshuler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047410836

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The Messianic Secret of Hasidism by Mor Altshuler Pdf

This book goes back to the early days of Hasidism and retells its beginning with an esoteric circle of messianic Kabbalists that established the first Hasidic court. Paradoxically, their failure to bring redemption enabled the growth of Hasidism from a small group of devotees to a mass movement, still influential throughout the Jewish world.

Author : Yitzhak Buxbaum
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826418880

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The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov by Yitzhak Buxbaum Pdf

This is a life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and joy at the center of religious life and championed the piety of the common folk against the rabbinic establishment. He has been recognized as one of the greatest teachers in Jewish history, and much of what is alive and vibrant in Judaism today, in all denominations, derives from his inspiration. Abraham Joshua Heschel, who was descended from several illustrious Hasidic dynasties, wrote: "The Baal Shem Tov brought heaven to earth. He and his disciples, the Hasidim, banished melancholy from the soul and uncovered the ineffable delight of being a Jew.">

Author : Marcin Wodziński
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400889563

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Historical Atlas of Hasidism by Marcin Wodziński Pdf

The first cartographic reference book on one of today’s most important religious movements Historical Atlas of Hasidism is the very first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring sixty-one large-format maps and a wealth of illustrations, charts, and tables, this one-of-a-kind atlas charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion; its dynasties, courts, and prayer houses; its spread to the New World; the crisis of the two world wars and the Holocaust; and Hasidism's remarkable postwar rebirth. Historical Atlas of Hasidism demonstrates how geography has influenced not only the social organization of Hasidism but also its spiritual life, types of religious leadership, and cultural articulation. It focuses not only on Hasidic leaders but also on their thousands of followers living far from Hasidic centers. It examines Hasidism in its historical entirety, from its beginnings in the eighteenth century until today, and draws on extensive GIS-processed databases of historical and contemporary records to present the most complete picture yet of this thriving and diverse religious movement. Historical Atlas of Hasidism is visually stunning and easy to use, a magnificent resource for anyone seeking to understand Hasidism's spatial and spiritual dimensions, or indeed anybody interested in geographies of religious movements past and present. Provides the first cartographic interpretation of Hasidism Features sixty-one maps and numerous illustrations Covers Hasidism in its historical entirety, from its eighteenth-century origins to today Charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion, courts and prayer houses, modern resurgence, and much more Offers the first in-depth analysis of Hasidism's egalitarian--not elitist—dimensions Draws on extensive GIS-processed databases of historical and contemporary records

Author : David Assaf
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611683059

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Untold Tales of the Hasidim by David Assaf Pdf

Reveals the untold tale of shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism

Author : Murray Jay Rosman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1906764441

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Founder of Hasidism by Murray Jay Rosman Pdf

The Ba'al Shem Tov is an elusive subject for historians because documentary evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal. Until now, much of what was known about him was based on stories compiled more than a generation after his death, many of which serve more to mythologize him than to describe him. The portrait Moshe Rosman provides is drawn from life instead of from myth. Based on innovative critical analysis of familiar and previously unexplored archival sources, and concentrating on accounts that can be attributed to the Besht or to contemporary eyewitnesses, this book goes further than any previous work in uncovering the historical Ba'al Shem Tov. Additionally, documents in Polish and Hebrew discovered by Professor Rosman during his research for the book enable him to give the first detailed description of the cultural, social, economic, and political context of the Besht's life. Founder of Hasidism supplies the history behind the legend. It presents the best, most convincing description that can be drawn from the existing documentary evidence, changing our understanding of the Besht and with it the master-narrative of hasidism. A substantial new introduction considers what has changed in the study of Hasidism since the influential first edition was published, these changes being in part due to the effect of the book. New approaches, new sources, and new interpretations have been introduced, and these are reviewed and critically assessed. Criticisms of the original edition are answered and key issues reconsidered, including the authenticity of the various versions of the Holy Epistle; the ways in which Jacob Joseph of Polonne's books can be utilized as historical sources; and the relationship to history of the stories about the Ba'al Shem Tov in the hagiographical collection Shivhei Ha-Besht.

Author : Ada Rapoport-Albert
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909821712

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Hasidism Reappraised by Ada Rapoport-Albert Pdf

'Probably the most important analytical study of the Hasidic movement ... can be read by anyone seriously interested in Jewish history.' - Jewish Historical Studies

Author : Nomi M. Stolzenberg,David N. Myers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691259291

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American Shtetl by Nomi M. Stolzenberg,David N. Myers Pdf

Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history-but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers paint a richly textured portrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, exploring the community's guiding religious, social, and economic norms. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to post-World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. They show how constant legal and political battles defined and even bolstered the community, whose very success has coincided with the rise of political conservatism and multiculturalism in American society over the past forty years.

Author : Murray Jay Rosman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520201914

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Founder of Hasidism by Murray Jay Rosman Pdf

Rosman's study casts a bright new light on the traditional stories about the Besht, confirming and augmenting some, challenging others. Most important, it overturns the widespread belief that the Ba'al Shem Tov was a religious revolutionary and a rebel against the clerical and communal establishment. Rosman finds, on the contrary, that the Besht was quite representative of the existing social, religious, and political order, a holy man who conformed to expected patterns of behavior. The evidence indicates that he made moderate changes, which led eventually to the development of Hasidism's mature institutions

Author : Martin Buber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Hasidim
ISBN : OCLC:36320497

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The Legend of the Baal-Shem by Martin Buber Pdf

Author : Shaul Magid
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804793469

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Hasidism Incarnate by Shaul Magid Pdf

Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude toward ritual and faith. Shaul Magid argues that the Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe constitutes an alternative "modernity," one that opens a new window on Jewish theological history. Unlike Judaism in German lands, Hasidism did not develop under a "Christian gaze" and had no need to be apologetic of its positions. Unburdened by an apologetic agenda (at least toward Christianity), it offered a particular reading of medieval Jewish Kabbalah filtered through a focus on the charismatic leader that resulted in a religious worldview that has much in common with Christianity. It is not that Hasidic masters knew about Christianity; rather, the basic tenets of Christianity remained present, albeit often in veiled form, in much kabbalistic teaching that Hasidism took up in its portrayal of the charismatic figure of the zaddik, whom it often described in supernatural terms.

Author : Zalman Schacter-Shalomi,Netanel Miles-Yepez
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781939681621

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A Heart Afire by Zalman Schacter-Shalomi,Netanel Miles-Yepez Pdf

A Heart Afire is an intimate, guided tour of many of the lesser-known and previously unpublished stories and teachings of the first three generations of Hasidism, especially those of the Ba'al Shem Tov, his heirs (male and female) and the students of his successor, the Maggid of Mezritch.