Hasidism
Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
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Contents
Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Emergence, Challenge and Renewal (1740-1815) Introduction The Ba‘al Shem Tov: Disciples and Descendants Yiddish Supplications (Tkhines) Dov Ber of Mezritsh The Brody Proclamation of 1772 The Maggid’s Family Chernobil and Zhitomir Shmuel and Pinhas Horowitz, Levi Yitshak of Barditshev, and Uziel Meizels Hasidism in Lithuania, White Russia and Tiberias Nahman of Bratslav Beyond the Maggid’s Circle Early Hasidism in Poland Part II: Ascendancy and Dominance (1815-1881) Introduction Avraham Yehoshu‘a Heshel of Apt The Dynasties of Ruzhin and Talna Menahem Mendel Schneersohn Kalonymous Kalman Epstein of Krakow Hayim Halberstam and Sandz Hasidism Malka Rokeah of Belz and Eydel Rubin of Brody The Dynasties of Dinov, Zhidachov and Komarno The Dynasties of Pshiskhe: Kotsk, Izhbits, Warka and Ger Part III: Decline, Renaissance, and Destruction (1881-1945) Introduction Ger in Warsaw: Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter Sokhachev and Ger Tsadok ha-Kohen of Lublin Munkatsh Hasidism Toledot Aharon Sholom Dov Ber Schneersohn The Hasidic Yeshivah Sarah Schenirer Three Hasidic Memoirs: Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Yitshak Nahum Twersky and Malka Shapiro The Belzer Rebbe’s Sermon The Rebbe of Piaseczno Part IV: Renewal and Reconstruction (1945–present) Introduction Hasidic Theology and the Holocaust Zionist Hasidism Satmar Hasidism The Seventh Rebbe of Habad Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky Slonim Hasidism in Jerusalem Ruth Lichtenstein and Feige Twerski
Review Quotes
Don Seeman, Emory University
“The editors have done an extraordinary thing. Succinctly framed by recent scholarship, they have nevertheless allowed some of the most consequential thinkers in the history of Hasidism to speak for themselves. Their selection is impressive, the translations are always lucid and sometimes strikingly beautiful. Mayse and Shonkoff have demonstrated the sheer phenomenological range of this movement and, significantly, made more space for Hasidic women’s voices than any previous collection. This will be the indispensable volume for teaching and research at every level. It deserves all the praise I can heap on it.”
Naomi Seidman, author of Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement
“In this latest addition to the beloved Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought, Mayse and Shonkoff address the distinctive modernity of Hasidic thought. In their inclusive vision, letters, memoirs, and responsa speak alongside homilies and works of theology. So, too, do they open the field of Hasidism to a strikingly diverse set of voices: women, neo-Hasidic thinkers, and ordinary Hasidim.”
Daniel Matt, author of the multi-volume, annotated translation, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition
“This dazzling collection will stimulate and enlighten its readers. In addition to displaying gems of famous Hasidic masters, the editors include women’s voices, memoirs, anti-Hasidic polemics, and theological responses to the Holocaust and the State of Israel. A superb resource for intellectual and spiritual exploration.”
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