Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal - The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

About the author

Don Seeman is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is the author of One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism. Daniel Reiser is Chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at Herzog College, Israel. His books include Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism. Ariel Evan Mayse is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh.

Product details

• Authors: Don (EDT)/ Reiser Seeman, Don Reiser Seeman
• Assisted by: Ariel Evan Mayse (Editor), Daniel Reiser (Editor), Don Seeman (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781438484013
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8401-3
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Suny Contemporary Jewish Thoug; SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies