Untold tales of the Hasidim : crisis & discontent in the history of Hasidism
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Untold tales of the Hasidim : crisis & discontent in the history of Hasidism
（The Tauber Institute for the study of European Jewry series）
Brandeis University Press , University Press of New England, c2010
- : cloth
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Neʾehaz basevakh : pirkei mashber umevukhah betoldot hahasidut
Caught in the thicket : chapters of crisis and discontent in the history of hasidism
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"Originally published in Hebrew as Neʾehaz basevakh : pirkei mashber umevukhah betoldot hahasidut/Caught in the thicket : chapters of crisis and discontent in the history of hasidism"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This fascinating volume reveals some of the dark, dramatic episodes concealed in the folds of the hasidic cloak-shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism. Using tools of detection, Assaf extracts historical truth from a variety of sources by examining how the same events are treated in different memory traditions, whether hasidic, maskilic, or modern historical, and tells the stories of individuals from the hasidic elites who found themselves unable to walk the trodden path. By placing these episodes and individuals under his historical lens, Assaf offers a more nuanced historical portrayal of Hasidism in the nineteenth-century context.
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