Studying Hasidism: Sources, Methods, Perspectives, Marcin Wodzinski

Автор: Biale David, Assaf David, Brown Benjamin
Название: Hasidism: A New History
ISBN: 0691175152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691175157
Издательство: Wiley
Рейтинг:
Цена: 44350.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

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. 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.

Автор: Ivan G. Marcus
Название: Sefer hasidim and the ashkenazic book in medieval europe
ISBN: 0812250095 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812250091
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 62660.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Regensburg. A charismatic religious teacher who recorded hundreds of original stories that mirrored situations in medieval social living, Judah's messages advocated praying slowly and avoiding honor, pleasure, wealth, and the lures of unmarried sex. Although he failed to enact his utopian vision of a pietist Jewish society, his collected writings would help shape the religious culture of Ashkenazic Judaism for centuries.

In "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe, Ivan G. Marcus proposes a new paradigm for understanding how this particular book was composed. The work, he contends, was an open text written by a single author in hundreds of disjunctive, yet self-contained, segments, which were then combined into multiple alternative versions, each equally authoritative. While Sefer Hasidim offers the clearest example of this model of composition, Marcus argues that it was not unique: the production of Ashkenazic books in small and easily rearranged paragraphs is a literary and cultural phenomenon quite distinct from anything practiced by the Christian authors of northern Europe or the Sephardic Jews of the south. According to Marcus, Judah, in authoring Sefer Hasidim in this manner, not only resisted Greco-Roman influences on Ashkenazic literary form but also extended an earlier Byzantine rabbinic tradition of authorship into medieval European Jewish culture.

Автор: Robert J. Mayhew
Название: New Perspectives on Malthus
ISBN: 1107434696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107434691
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 33790.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Thomas Malthus was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally. This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading Malthus scholars reassesses his achievements in historical context and then looks at the complex reception of his ideas up to the present day.

Автор: Marcin Wodzinski
Название: Studying Hasidism: Sources, Methods, Perspectives
ISBN: 1978804229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978804227
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 125400.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly interest in Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic Jews is growing, but there is no textbook dedicated to research methods in the field, nor sources for the history of Hasidism have been properly recognized. Studying Hasidism, edited by Marcin Wodzi?ski, an internationally recognized historian of Hasidism, aims to remedy this gap. The work's thirteen chapters each draws upon a set of different sources, many of them previously untapped, including folklore, music, big data, and material culture to demonstrate what is still to be achieved in the study of Hasidism. Ultimately, this textbook presents research methods that can decentralize the role community leaders play in the current literature and reclaim the everyday lives of Hasidic Jews.

Автор: Wodziński Marcin
Название: Historical Atlas of Hasidism
ISBN: 0691174016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691174013
Издательство: Wiley
Рейтинг:
Цена: 73920.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

The first cartographic reference book on one of today's most important religious movements

Historical Atlas of Hasidism is the very first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring seventy-four large-format maps and a wealth of illustrations, charts, and tables, this one-of-a-kind atlas charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion; its dynasties, courts, and prayer houses; its spread to the New World; the crisis of the two world wars and the Holocaust; and Hasidism's remarkable postwar rebirth.

Historical Atlas of Hasidism demonstrates how geography has influenced not only the social organization of Hasidism but also its spiritual life, types of religious leadership, and cultural articulation. It focuses not only on Hasidic leaders but also on their thousands of followers living far from Hasidic centers. It examines Hasidism in its historical entirety, from its beginnings in the eighteenth century until today, and draws on extensive GIS-processed databases of historical and contemporary records to present the most complete picture yet of this thriving and diverse religious movement.

Historical Atlas of Hasidism is visually stunning and easy to use, a magnificent resource for anyone seeking to understand Hasidism's spatial and spiritual dimensions, or indeed anybody interested in geographies of religious movements past and present.

• Provides the first cartographic interpretation of Hasidism
  
• Features seventy-four maps and numerous illustrations
  
• Covers Hasidism in its historical entirety, from its eighteenth-century origins to today
  
• Charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion, courts and prayer houses, modern resurgence, and much more
  
• Offers the first in-depth analysis of Hasidism's egalitarian--not elitist--dimensions
  
• Draws on extensive GIS-processed databases of historical and contemporary records
  

Автор: Uffenheimer Rivka Schatz
Название: Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth-Century Hasidic Thought
ISBN: 0691608067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691608068
Издательство: Wiley
Рейтинг:
Цена: 58080.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offered here for the first time in English translation, Hasidism as Mysticism is a classic in its field. Using the tools of phenomenology, Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer places Hasidism squarely in the context of religious studies. Hasidism`s theoretical texts have been largely ignored by historians of the movement, but Schatz Uffenheimer analyzes these

Автор: Boyarin Jonathan
Название: A Fire Burns in Kotsk: A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland
ISBN: 0814338135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814338131
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 26750.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger's A Fire Burns in Kotsk dramatizes this moment of division among Polish Hasidim in a historical account that reads like a novel, though the book was never billed as such. Originally published in Buenos Aires in 1949 and translated for the first time from Yiddish by Jonathan Boyarin, this volume captures an important period in the evolution of the Hasidic movement, and is itself a missing link to Hasidic oral traditions.A non-observant journalist who had grown up as the son of a prominent Hasidic rabbi, Unger incorporates stories that were told by his family into his historical account. A Fire Burns in Kotsk begins with a threat to the new, rebellious movement within Hasidism known as ""the school of Pshiskhe,"" led by the good-humored Reb Simkhe Bunim. When Bunim is succeeded by the fiery and forbidding Rebbe of Kotsk, Menachem Mendl Morgenstern, the new leader's disdain for the vast majority of his followers will lead to a crisis in his court. Around this core narrative of reform and crisis in Hasidic leadership, Unger offers a rich account of the everyday Hasidic court life-filled with plenty of alcohol, stolen geese, and wives pleading with their husbands to come back home.Unger's volume reflects a period when Eastern European Jewish immigrants enjoyed reading about Hasidic culture in Yiddish articles and books, even as they themselves were rapidly assimilating into American culture. Historians of literature, Polish culture, and Jewish studies will welcome this lively translation.

Автор: Magid Shaul
Название: Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism
ISBN: 1618117513 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618117519
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 97950.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice.

Автор: Batsheva Goldman-Ida
Название: Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah
ISBN: 9004287701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004287709
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 248380.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects, and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah. Examined at the delicate and difficult to define interface between seemingly simple, folk art and complex ideological and conceptual outlooks which contain deep, abstract symbols, the study touches on aspects of object history, intellectual history, the decorative arts, and the history of religion. Based on original texts, the focus of this volume is on the subjective experience of the user at the moment of ritual, applying tenets of process philosophy and literary theory – Wolfgang Iser, Gaston Bachelard, and Walter Benjamin – to the analysis of objects.

Автор: Hammerman Shaina
Название: Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story of an Image
ISBN: 0253031699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253031693
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 20900.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

Motivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships, Hammerman uses this ethnic imagery to ask meaningful questions about how Jewish identity, multiculturalism, belonging, and relevance are constructed on the stage and silver screen.

Автор: Heilman Samuel C.
Название: Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
ISBN: 0520277236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520277236
Издательство: Wiley
Рейтинг:
Цена: 26400.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Revolving around the central figure of the rebbe, this book explores two families with too few successors, two with too many successors, and one that believes their last rebbe continues to lead them even after his death.

Автор: Davidman Lynn
Название: Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews
ISBN: 0199380503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199380503
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 32200.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Lynn Davidman offers an in-depth study of defectors from Orthodox Judaism, showing how they negotiate the difficult passage away from their families and communities and reconstruct their identities in new social contexts.