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Hasidism reappraised / edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert.

Contributor(s): Weiss, J. G. (Joseph George), 1918-1969 | Rapoport-Albert, Ada | Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England)
Material type: TextTextSeries: Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series): Publisher: London ; Portland, Or. : Vallentine Mitchell, 1997Description: xxiv, 514 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1874774358 (pbk.)Subject(s): Hasidism -- History -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Joseph G. Weiss: a personal appraisal / Jacob Katz -- Joseph Weiss: letters to Ora / Sara Ora Heller Wilensky -- The conditions in Jewish society in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the middle deacdes of the eighteenth century / Gershon David Hundert -- Social conflicts in Międzybóż in the generation of the Besht / Moshe J. Rosman -- Hasidism and the Kahal in eastern Europe / Shmuel Ettinger -- Hasidism after 1772: structural continuity and change / Ada Rapoport-Albert -- The Hasidic managing editor as an agent of culture / Zeev Gries -- The Zaddik: the interrelationship between religious doctrine and social organization / Immanuel Etkes -- The paradigms of Yesh and Ayin in Hasidic thought / Rachel Elior -- Walking as a sacred duty: theological transformation of social reality in early Hasidism / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Hasidism and the dogma of the decline of the generations / Louis Jacobs -- Personal redemption in Hasidism / Morris M. Faierstein -- Hasidism as a socio-religious movement on the evidence of Devekut / Mendel Piekarz -- The influence of Reshit ḥokhmah on the teachings of the Maggid of Mezhirech / Bracha Sack -- Torah lishmah as a central concept in the Degel maḥaneh Efrayim of Moses Hayyim Ephraim of Sudylkow / Roland Goetschel --
The teachings of R. Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk / Moshe Hallamish -- Habad approaches to contemplative prayer, 1790-1920 / Naftali Loewenthal -- The fluidity of categories in Hasidism: Averah lishmah in the teachings of R. Zevi Elimelekh of Dynow / Yehoshua Mondshine -- R. Naphtali Zevi of Ropczyce ('the Ropshitser') as a Hasidic leader / Yoseph Salmon -- New light on the Hasidic tale and its sources / Gedaliah Nigal -- The source value of the basic recensions of Shivḥei haBesht / Karl Erich Grözinger -- The imprint of Haskalah literature on the historiography of Hasidism / Israel Bartal -- The historiography of the Hasidic immigration to Erets Yisrael / Jacob Barnai -- Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism: a critical appraisal / Moshe Idel -- Yitzhak Schiper's study of Hasidism in Poland / Chone Shmeruk -- Hasidism: the third century / Joseph Dan -- Differences in attitudes to study and work between present-day Hasidim and Mitnaggedim: a sociological view / Daniel Meijers -- Early Hasidism: some old/new questions / Arthur Green -- The study of Hasidism: past trends and new directions / Immanuel Etkes.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BM198.3 .H38 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902109707

Proceedings of the international conference of the Institute of Jewish Studies in memory of Joseph G. Weiss, University College London, 21-23 June 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Joseph G. Weiss: a personal appraisal / Jacob Katz -- Joseph Weiss: letters to Ora / Sara Ora Heller Wilensky -- The conditions in Jewish society in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the middle deacdes of the eighteenth century / Gershon David Hundert -- Social conflicts in Międzybóż in the generation of the Besht / Moshe J. Rosman -- Hasidism and the Kahal in eastern Europe / Shmuel Ettinger -- Hasidism after 1772: structural continuity and change / Ada Rapoport-Albert -- The Hasidic managing editor as an agent of culture / Zeev Gries -- The Zaddik: the interrelationship between religious doctrine and social organization / Immanuel Etkes -- The paradigms of Yesh and Ayin in Hasidic thought / Rachel Elior -- Walking as a sacred duty: theological transformation of social reality in early Hasidism / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Hasidism and the dogma of the decline of the generations / Louis Jacobs -- Personal redemption in Hasidism / Morris M. Faierstein -- Hasidism as a socio-religious movement on the evidence of Devekut / Mendel Piekarz -- The influence of Reshit ḥokhmah on the teachings of the Maggid of Mezhirech / Bracha Sack -- Torah lishmah as a central concept in the Degel maḥaneh Efrayim of Moses Hayyim Ephraim of Sudylkow / Roland Goetschel --

The teachings of R. Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk / Moshe Hallamish -- Habad approaches to contemplative prayer, 1790-1920 / Naftali Loewenthal -- The fluidity of categories in Hasidism: Averah lishmah in the teachings of R. Zevi Elimelekh of Dynow / Yehoshua Mondshine -- R. Naphtali Zevi of Ropczyce ('the Ropshitser') as a Hasidic leader / Yoseph Salmon -- New light on the Hasidic tale and its sources / Gedaliah Nigal -- The source value of the basic recensions of Shivḥei haBesht / Karl Erich Grözinger -- The imprint of Haskalah literature on the historiography of Hasidism / Israel Bartal -- The historiography of the Hasidic immigration to Erets Yisrael / Jacob Barnai -- Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism: a critical appraisal / Moshe Idel -- Yitzhak Schiper's study of Hasidism in Poland / Chone Shmeruk -- Hasidism: the third century / Joseph Dan -- Differences in attitudes to study and work between present-day Hasidim and Mitnaggedim: a sociological view / Daniel Meijers -- Early Hasidism: some old/new questions / Arthur Green -- The study of Hasidism: past trends and new directions / Immanuel Etkes.

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