Hasidism: Key Questions Marcin Wodzinski

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190631260
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190631260
• Author: Marcin Wodzinski

Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Innovative and multidisciplinary in its approach, Hasidism: Key Questions discusses the most central features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline. This is the first attempt to answer those central questions in a single volume.

Table contents:

1 A Definition
The History of a Definition
A Sect
Sectarian Features?
Questioning Sectarianism
Grassroots Definitions
Confraternity
Consequences
Conclusions
2 Women
Statements of Identity
Prayer
Pilgrimages
Public Activity
At Home
Were There Any Female Hasidim?
Conclusions
3 Leadership
The Tsadik as a Holy Man
The Tsadik’s Authority: Image vs. Reality
The Kvitl
The Horizon of Expectations
Who Is a Tsadik?
Conclusions
4 Demography
Early Approximations
Re-evaluation
Extrapolation
Conclusions
5 Geography
The Boundaries of Hasidic Expansion
What Stopped Hasidism?
Aharon Halberstam of Biała
Internal Boundaries
Center and Periphery
Conclusions
6 Economy
Images and Their Uses
Doctrine and Its Impact
Method, Sources, Data
How Reliable?
Explications
Limitations
Conclusions
7 The End and the Beginning
East-European Jews and the First World War
The War’s Effect on Hasidism
Migrations: A New Geography
Urbanization
New Ideologies, New Desertions
Hybridization vs. Fundamentalization
Conclusions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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