Hasidism Reappraised - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1874774358 ISBN 13 : 9781874774358

Editeur : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1998

Synopsis

Hasidism has been a seminal force and source of controversy in the Jewish world since its inception in the second half of the eighteenth century. Indeed, almost every ideological trend that has made itself felt among Jews since that time-from Zionism and Orthodoxy to contemporary Jewish feminism and movements within the yeshiva world-has claimed to have derived some inspiration from this vibrant movement. While this is sure testimony to its vitality and originality, it has also given rise to many misconceptions as to what hasidism is about. This major work, the first comprehensive critical study of hasidism in English, offers a wide-ranging treatment of the subject in all its aspects by what is effectively the entire present generation of scholars working in the field. With contributions ranging from the history of theology and of ideas through social and economic history to contemporary sociology, Hasidism Reappraised encompasses a complete field of modern scholarship in a discipline that is central to the understanding of modern Jewish history and the contemporary Jewish world. The twenty-eight authors who have contributed to the main body of the book are almost without exception established scholars with international reputations. The volume as a whole is dedicated to the memory of Joseph Weiss, and its opening section assesses his contribution to the study of hasidism in the context of his relationship with Gershom Scholem and Scholem's long-standing influence on the field. The remaining contributions are arranged thematically under seven headings: the social history of hasidism; the social functions of mystical ideals in the hasidic movement; distinctive outlooks and schools of thought within hasidism; the hasidic tale; the history of hasidic historiography; contemporary hasidism; and the present state of research on hasidism. The book also incorporates an extensive introduction that places the various articles in their intellectual context, as well as a bibliography of hasidic sources and contemporary scholarly literature. Hasidism Reappraised shows an intellectual world at an important juncture in its development and points to the direction in which scholarly study of hasidism is likely to develop in the years to come.

CONTRIBUTORS: Jacob Barnai, Israel Bartal, Joseph Dan, Rachel Elior, Immanuel Etkes, Shmuel Ettinger, Morris M. Faierstein, Roland Goetschel, Arthur Green, Zeev Gries, Karl Erich GROZINGER, Moshe Hallamish, Gershon David Hundert, Moshe Idel, Louis Jacobs, Jacob Katz, Naftali Loewenthal, Daniel Meijers, Yehoshua Mondshine, Gedaliah Nigal, Mendel Piekarz, Ada Rapoport-Albert, Moshe J. Rosman, Bracha Sack, Yoseph Salmon, Chone Shmeruk, Sara Ora Heller Wilensky, Elliot R. Wolfson.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ada Rapoport-Albert is Reader in and Head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. Born in Israel, she studied at University College London, and has also taught at the Oriental Institute in Oxford and been a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Divinity College. She is the author of various studies on the history of hasidism, and the editor of Essays in Jewish Historiography (1988) and, with Steven J. Zipperstein, Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky (1988). Her forthcoming books to be published by the Littman Library, include Female Bodies, Male Souls: Asceticism and Gender in the Jewish Tradition; Emergent Hasidism: Spontaneity and Institutionalization; Messianic Hasidism: From Nineteenth-Century Bratslav to Twentieth-Century Habad; and Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1874774358
• ISBN 13: 9781874774358
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 538
• Éditeur: Rapoport-Albert Ada
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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