Hasidism Reappraised
Edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert

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'An opportunity to encounter virtually all the most important trends in the study of Hasidism . . . a volume that will be essential for anyone with a serious interest in Hasidism and indeed for any Judaica collection.'
Miles Krassen, Journal of Jewish Studies

'Handsome . . . comprehensive indeed, and profound, articulate, often gripping, and frequently counter to conventional wisdom . . . [a] superb job of translating, editing and reducing to easily readable length . . .'
Lewis Glinert, Le'ela

'Probably the most important analytical study of the Hasidic movement to have appeared in the English language.'
Edgar Samuel, Jewish Historical Studies

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Ada Rapoport-Albert is Reader in and Head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. Born in Israel, she studied at University College London, and has also taught at the Oriental Institute in Oxford and been a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Divinity College. She is the author of various studies on the history of hasidism, and the editor of Essays in Jewish Historiography (1988) and, with Steven J. Zipperstein, Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky (1988). Her forthcoming books to be published by the Littman Library, include Female Bodies, Male Souls: Asceticism and Gender in the Jewish Tradition; Emergent Hasidism: Spontaneity and Institutionalization; and Messianic Hasidism: From Nineteenth-Century Bratslav to Twentieth-Century Habad.

CONTRIBUTORS

Jacob Barnai, Israel Bartal, Joseph Dan, Rachel Elior, Immanuel Etkes, Shmuel Ettinger, Morris M. Faierstein, Roland Goetschel, Arthur Green, Zeev Gries, Karl Erich Grözinger, Moshe Hallamish, Gershon Hundert, Moshe Idel, Louis Jacobs, Jacob Katz, Naftali Loewenthal, Daniel Meijers, Yehoshua Mondshine, Gedalyah Nigal, Mendel Piekarz, Ada Rapoport-Albert, Moshe J. Rosman, Bracha Sack, Yoseph Salmon, Chone Shmeruk, Sara Ora Heller Wilensky, Elliot R. Wolfson

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