Hasidism - Key Questions

Hasidism: Key Questions provides a refreshing new look at many central issues in historiography of Hasidism: its definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline. This is the first attempt to respond those central questions in one book.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Note on Transcription and Place Names


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: A Definition


• Chapter 2: Women


• Chapter 3: Leadership


• Chapter 4: Demography


• Chapter 5: Geography


• Chapter 6: Economy


• Chapter 7: The End and the Beginning


• Conclusion




• Bibliography


• List of Figures and Tables


• Index

About the author

Marcin Wodzinski is Professor of Jewish History and Literature at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. His special fields of interest are Jewish material culture and the social history of Jews in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, especially the history of Hasidism and Haskalah. His books include: Hebrew Inscriptions in Silesia 13th-18th c. (Pol., 1996), Haskalah and Hasidism (2005), Hasidism and Politics (2013), and Historical Atlas of Hasidism (2018).

Summary

Hasidism: Key Questions provides a refreshing new look at many central issues in historiography of Hasidism: its definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline. This is the first attempt to respond those central questions in one book.

Product details

• Authors: Marcin Wodzinski, Marcin (Professor of Jewish History and Wodzinski, Wodzinski Marcin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780197552643
• ISBN: 978-0-19-755264-3
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Judaism / History, RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Historical Geography, mysticism, History of Religion, Historiography, Judaism, Religious issues & debates, Social and cultural history, Historical Geography, Religious issues and debates, Judaism: mysticism