Hasidism: Key Questions

ISBN-13: 9780190631260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str.

Marcin Wodzianski

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Marcin Wodzinski's book insightfully addresses a series of neglected topics in Hasidism, dealing with subjects that are more mundane, concrete, and at the same time central to the daily life of the various Hasidic denominations. Unlike the more conceptually-oriented approach, which prefers to focus on spiritual life, and the historical one, which is more oriented to major events that shaped Hasidism, this book offers a fresh approach to neglected aspects such as economics, the vicissitudes of history during WWI, and the self-identity of both men and women in Hasidism.

O autorze

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).