LEADER 05211cam a2200553 i 4500001 268878 005 20240621232756.0 008 170504t20182018njuab b 001 0 eng 010 2017021879 019 9737593629738092099738985061013755933 020 9780691175157 |q(hardcover ; |qalkaline paper) 020 0691175152 |q(hardcover ; |qalkaline paper) 020 |z9780190631291 020 |z0190631295 020 |z9780190631284 020 |z0190631287 020 9780190631260 020 0190631260 035 (OCoLC)ocn974676470 035 268878 042 pcc 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBTCTA |dYDX |dOCLCO |dBDX |dOCLCF |dERASA |dUPM |dOCLCQ |dDLC |dVP@ |dCLE |dJ9U |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dWIO |dGYG |dGUA |dYDX |dTKN |dLHM 050 00 BM198.3 |b.B53 2018 100 1 Biale, David, |d1949- |eauthor. 245 10 Hasidism : |ba new history / |cDavid Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, and Marcin Wodzinski ; with an afterword by Arthur Green. 264 1 Princeton ;Oxford : |bPrinceton University Press, |c[2018] 264 4 |c©2018 300 x, 875 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c27 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world. Hasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Baal Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement began to spread. Challenging the notion that Hasidism ceased to be a creative movement after the eighteenth century, this book argues that its first golden age was in the nineteenth century, when it conquered new territory, won a mass following, and became a mainstay of Jewish Orthodoxy. World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Holocaust decimated eastern European Hasidism. But following World War II, the movement enjoyed a second golden age, growing exponentially. Today, it is witnessing a remarkable renaissance in Israel, the United States, and other countries around the world. Written by an international team of scholars, Hasidism is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movement. 505 0 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. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Hasidism |xHistory. 650 7 Hasidism. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00951808 650 7 Chassidismus. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4009799-7 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 Assaf, David, |eauthor. 700 1 Brown, Benjamin, |d1966- |eauthor. 700 1 Gellman, Uriel, |eauthor. 700 1 Heilman, Samuel C., |eauthor. 700 1 Rosman, Moshe, |eauthor. 700 1 Sagiv, Gad, |eauthor. 700 1 Wodziński, Marcin, |eauthor. 700 1 Green, Arthur, |d1941- |ewriter of afterword. 852 0 |bstacks |hBM198.3 |i.B53 2018