Studying Hasidism

Sources, Methods, Perspectives

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
9781978804227 (ISBN)

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Draws upon a set of different sources, many of them previously untapped, including folklore, music, big data, and material culture, to demonstrate what is still to be achieved in the study of Hasidism. Ultimately, this textbook presents research methods that can decentralize the role community leaders play in the current literature.

Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly interest in Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic Jews is growing, but there is no textbook dedicated to research methods in the field, nor sources for the history of Hasidism have been properly recognized. Studying Hasidism, edited by Marcin Wodziński, an internationally recognized historian of Hasidism, aims to remedy this gap. The work's thirteen chapters each draws upon a set of different sources, many of them previously untapped, including folklore, music, big data, and material culture to demonstrate what is still to be achieved in the study of Hasidism. Ultimately, this textbook presents research methods that can decentralize the role community leaders play in the current literature and reclaim the everyday lives of Hasidic Jews.

MARCIN WODZIŃSKI is a professor of Jewish history and literature at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He is the author or editor of many books, including Historical Atlas of Hasidism and Hasidism: A New History.

Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription and Place
Names
Introduction by Marcin Wodziński
1. Homilies by Gadi Sagiv
2. Halakhah by Levi Cooper
3. Stories by Uriel Gellman
4. Mitnagedim by Uriel Gellman
5. Maskilim by Jonatan Meir
6. Ego-documents by Marcin Wodziński
7. Folk narratives by Galit Hasan-Rokem and Shaul Magid
8. Archives by Yohanan Petrovsky Shtern
9. Press by David Assaf
10. Iconography by Maya Balakirsky-Katz
11. Music by Edwin Seroussi
12. Material culture by Vladimir Levin
13. Big data by Marcin Wodziński
Note About the Authors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Co-Autor	Maya Balakirsky Katz, Gadi Sagiv, Levi Cooper, David Assaf
Zusatzinfo	17 b-w, 1 table
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781978804227 / 9781978804227
Zustand	Neuware