A ceremony was enacted to exorcise this dybbuk in the town of Krasna, symbolically located midway between Belz and Brody. The Israeli scholar Dov Sadan, a native of Brody, related, based on family traditions, that Eydel's brother ...
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.
This is 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.
Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic
This is the first attempt to respond those central questions in one book. Recognizing the major limitations of the existing research on Hasidism, Marcin Wodzinski's Hasidism offers four important corrections.
This book is a result of forty years of study, and Buber interprets the ideas and motives that underlie the great Jewish religious movement of Hasidism and its creator, Baal-Shem.