Physical Description
x, 875 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Contents
Introduction: Hasidism as a modern movement
Section 1. Origins: The Eighteenth Century
Part I. Beginnings :
1. Hasidism's birthplace
2. Ba'al Shem Tov: founder of Hasidism?
3. From circle to court: the Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's first opponents
Part II. From Court to Movement :
4. Ukraine
5. Lithuania, White Russia, and the land of Israel
6. Galicia and central Poland
Part III. Beliefs and Practices :
7. Ethos
8. Rituals
9. Institutions
Section 2. Golden Age: The Nineteenth Century :
Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century
10. A golden age within two empires
Part I. Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Hasidism :
11. In the empire of the Tsars: Russia
12. In the empire of the Tsars: Poland
13. Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina
14. Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary
Part II. Institutions :
15. "A little townlet on its own": the court and its inhabitants
16. Between shtibl and shtetl
17. Book culture
Part III. Relations with the Outside World :
18. Haskalah and its successors
19. The state and public opinion
20. The crisis of modernity
21. Neo-Hasidism
Section 3. Death and Resurrection: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries :
Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Part I. Between World War I AND World War II :
22. War and revolution
23. In a sovereign Poland
24. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
25. America and the land of Israel
26. Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust
Part II. Postwar Phoenix: Hasidism after the Holocaust :
27. America: Hasidism's "goldene medinah"
2. The state of Israel: haven in Zion
29. Hasidic society
30. Hasidic culture
31. In the eyes of others: Hasidism in contemporary culture
Afterword / Arthur Green.
Other Authors/Editors
Assaf, David, author.
Brown, Benjamin, 1966- author.
Gellman, Uriel, author.
Heilman, Samuel C., author.
Rosman, Murray Jay, author.
Sagiv, Gad, author.
Wodziński, Marcin, author.
Green, Arthur, 1941- writer of afterword.
ISBN
9780691175157
0691175152
9780190631260
0190631260
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Hasidism as a modern movement -- Section 1. Origins: The Eighteenth Century -- Part I. Beginnings : -- 1. Hasidism's birthplace -- 2. Ba'al Shem Tov: founder of Hasidism? -- 3. From circle to court: the Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's first opponents -- Part II. From Court to Movement : -- 4. Ukraine -- 5. Lithuania, White Russia, and the land of Israel -- 6. Galicia and central Poland -- Part III. Beliefs and Practices : -- 7. Ethos -- 8. Rituals -- 9. Institutions -- Section 2. Golden Age: The Nineteenth Century : -- Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century -- 10. A golden age within two empires -- Part I. Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Hasidism : -- 11. In the empire of the Tsars: Russia -- 12. In the empire of the Tsars: Poland -- 13. Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina -- 14. Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary -- Part II. Institutions : -- 15. "A little townlet on its own": the court and its inhabitants -- 16. Between shtibl and shtetl -- 17. Book culture -- Part III. Relations with the Outside World : -- 18. Haskalah and its successors -- 19. The state and public opinion -- 20. The crisis of modernity -- 21. Neo-Hasidism -- Section 3. Death and Resurrection: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries : -- Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Part I. Between World War I AND World War II : -- 22. War and revolution -- 23. In a sovereign Poland -- 24. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania -- 25. America and the land of Israel -- 26. Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust -- Part II. Postwar Phoenix: Hasidism after the Holocaust : -- 27. America: Hasidism's "goldene medinah" -- 2. The state of Israel: haven in Zion -- 29. Hasidic society -- 30. Hasidic culture -- 31. In the eyes of others: Hasidism in contemporary culture -- Afterword / Arthur Green.
