Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Innovative and multidisciplinary in its approach, Hasidism: Key Questions discusses the most cardinal features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline. This is the first attempt to respond those central questions in one book.
Recognizing the major limitations of the existing research on Hasidism, Marcin Wodzinski's Hasidism offers four important corrections. First, it offers anti-elitist corrective attempting to investigate Hasidism beyond its leaders into the masses of the rank-and-file followers. Second, it introduces new types of sources, rarely or never used in research on Hasidism, including archival documents, Jewish memorial books, petitionary notes, quantitative, and visual materials. Third, it covers the whole classic period of Hasidism from its institutional maturation at the end of the eighteenth century to its major crisis and decline in wake of the First World War. Finally, instead of focusing on intellectual history, the book offers a multi-disciplinary approach with the modern methodologies of the corresponding disciplines: sociology and anthropology of religion, demography, historical geography and more.
By combining some oldest, central questions with radically new sources, perspectives, and methodologies, Hasidism: Key Questions will provide a radically new look at many central issues in historiography of Hasidism, one of the most important religious movements of modern Eastern Europe.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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
Les mer
Selling point: New, fresh perspective on the study of Hasidism
Selling point: First study to address a variety of major key questions in one book
Selling point: Combines some of the oldest, central questions with radically new sources, perspectives, and methodologies
Les mer
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).
Les mer
Selling point: New, fresh perspective on the study of Hasidism
Selling point: First study to address a variety of major key questions in one book
Selling point: Combines some of the oldest, central questions with radically new sources, perspectives, and methodologies
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780197552643
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
522 gr
Høyde
150 mm
Bredde
231 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
370
Forfatter