The Messianic Secret of Hasidism

This book goes back to the early days of Hasidism and retells its beginning with an esoteric circle of messianic Kabbalists that established the first Hasidic court. Paradoxically, their failure to bring redemption enabled the growth of Hasidism from a small group of devotees to a mass movement, still influential throughout the Jewish world.

About the author

Mor Altshuler, Ph.D. (1995) in Jewish Thought, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is a scholar of Jewish mysticism. She has published extensively on Hasidism and her current study on sixteenth-century Golden Age of Kabbalah is being published in academic forums, including Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge. (2004).

Product details

• Authors: Mor Altshuler
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2012
• EAN: 9789004226722
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22672-2
• No. of pages: 452
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Brill's Jewish Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries