Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Part I. History. Becoming a movement -- 1. Hasidism after 1772: structural continuity and change conceptualizing leadership -- 2. God and the tsadik as the two focal points of Hasidic worship -- 3. Confession in the circle of R. Nahman of Bratslav fashioning the past -- 4. Hagiography with footnotes: edifying tales and the writing of history in Hasidism -- Part II. Gender. Women out? 5. From prophetess to madwoman: the displacement of female spirituality in the post-Sabbatian era -- 6. On women in Hasidism: S.A. Horodetsky and the maid of Ludmir tradition -- Women In? 7. The emergence of a female constituency in twentieth-century Habad Hasidism -- 8. From woman as Hasid to woman as 'tsadik' in the teachings of the last two Lubavitcher Rebbes

• | Author: Ada Rapoport-Albert, Moshe Rosman
• | Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 424 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1906764824
• | ISBN-13: 9781906764821