Hasidism arose against the background of conditions in eighteenth-century Poland, a troubled time of foreign invasions, peasant uprisings, a declining central government, and conflict between Catholic ...
In 1770, a young man of 18, later to be known as Solomon Maimon, traveled from Nesvizh in Lithuania to the court of Dov Ber, the foremost leader of the budding Hasidic movement, in the Polish town of ...
A vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world Hasidism has attracted, repelled and bewildered philosophers, historians and theologians since its inception in the 18th ...
For the past half-century, I have been reading and studying the sources of Hasidism with both affection and respect. I have worked as a historian of Hasidic thought and, more recently, as a theologian ...
The Hasidim, or "pious ones" in Hebrew, belong to a special movement within Orthodox Judaism, a movement that, at its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, claimed the allegiance of ...
JTA — Rabbi Art Green is a scholar of worldwide renown, the author of dozens of books, one of the world’s leading experts on Hasidic Judaism and perhaps the only person ever to lead two different ...
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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...
In this volume spanning the 1870s to the present, history professor Edward Ross Dickinson explores the making of the modern world as a connected pattern of global developments in politics and ...
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an historic migration after World War II, Hasidism found ...
A man descended from a Hasidic “dynasty” is transitioning into a woman — enraging members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community she left behind. Srully Stein — who now goes by Abby — recently came ...
A vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world Hasidism has attracted, repelled and bewildered philosophers, historians and theologians since its inception in the 18th ...
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