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Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World, Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff present students and scholars with a vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world. In this collection, they show that the modern Hasid marks not only another example of a Jewish pietist, but someone who is committed to an ethos of seeking wisdom, joy, and intimacy with the divine.
While this volume focuses on Hasidism, it wrestles with a core set of questions that permeate modern Jewish thought and religious thought more generally: What is the relationship between God and the world? What is the relationship between God and the human being? But Hasidic thought is cast with mystical, psychological, and even magical accents, and offers radically different answers to core issues of modern concern. The editors draw selections from an array of genres including women's supplications; sermons and homilies; personal diaries and memoirs; correspondence; stories; polemics; legal codes; and rabbinic response. These selections consciously move between everyday lived experience and the most ineffable mystical secrets, reflecting the multidimensional nature of this unusual religious and social movement. The editors include canonical texts from the first generation of Hasidic leaders up through present-day ultra-orthodox, as well as neo-Hasidic voices and, in so doing, demonstrate the unfolding of a rich and complex phenomenon that continues to evolve today.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Emergence, Challenge, and Renewal (1736-1815)
1. The Ba'al Shem Tov: Disciples and Descendants
2. Yiddish Supplications (Tkhines)
3. Dov Ber of Mezritsh
4. The Brody Proclamation of 1772
5. The Maggid's Family
6. Chernobil and Zhitomir
7. Shmuel and Pinhas Horowitz, Levi Yitshak of Barditshev, and 'Uziel Meizels
8. Hasidism in Lithuania, White Russia and Tiberias
9. Nahman of Bratslav
10. Beyond the Maggid's Circle
11. Early Hasidism in Poland
II. Ascendancy and Dominance (1815-1881)
12. Avraham Yehoshu'a Heshel of Apt
13. The Dynasties of Ruzhin and Talna
14. Menahem Mendel Schneersohn
15. Kalonymous Kalman Epstein of Krakow
16. Hayim Halberstam and Sandz Hasidism
17. Malka Rokeah of Belz and Eydel Rubin of Brody
18. The Dynasties of Dinov, Zhidachov, and Komarno
19. The Dynasties of Pshiskhe, Kotsk, Izhbits, Warka and Ger
III. Decline, Renaissance, and Destruction (1881-1945)
20. Ger in Warsaw: Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
21. Sokhachev and Ger
22. Tsadok ha-Kohen of Lublin
23. Munkatsh Hasidism
24. Toledot Aharon
25. Sholom Dov Ber Schneersohn
26. The Hasidic Yeshivah
27. Sarah Schenirer
28. Three Hasidic Memoirs: Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Yitshak Nahum Twersky and Malka Shapiro
29. The Belzer Rebbe's Sermon and Holocaust Testimonies
30. The Rebbe of Piaseczno
IV. Renewal and Reconstruction (1945-present)
31. Hasidic Theology and the Holocaust
32. Zionist Hasidism
33. Satmar Hasidism
34. The Seventh Rebbe of Habad
35. Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky
36. Slonim Hasidism in Jerusalem
37. Voices of Contemporary Hasidic Women
Index
