UID:
edocfu_9961448567002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxxi, 336 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
0-19-063128-7
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0-19-063129-5
Content:
Innovative and multidisciplinary in approach, this text discusses the most cardinal features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline of Hasidism, one of the most important religious movements of modern Eastern Europe.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
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Definition --
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History of a Definition --
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Sect --
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Sectarian Features? --
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Questioning Sectarianism --
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Grassroots Definitions --
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Confraternity --
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Consequences --
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Conclusions --
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Women --
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Statements of Identity --
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Prayer --
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Pilgrimages --
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Public Activity --
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At Home --
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Were There Any Female Hasidim? --
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Conclusions --
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Leadership --
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Tsadik as a Holy Man --
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Tsadik's Authority: Image vs. Reality --
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Kvitl --
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Horizon of Expectations --
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Who Is a Tsadik? --
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Conclusions --
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Demography --
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Early Approximations --
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Re-evaluation --
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Extrapolation --
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Conclusions --
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Geography --
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Boundaries of Hasidic Expansion --
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What Stopped Hasidism? --
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Aharon Halberstam of Biala --
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Internal Boundaries --
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Center and Periphery --
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Conclusions --
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Economy --
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Images and Their Uses --
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Doctrine and Its Impact --
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Method, Sources, Data --
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How Reliable? --
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Explications --
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Limitations --
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Conclusions --
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End and the Beginning --
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East-European Jews and the First World War --
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War's Effect on Hasidism --
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Migrations: A New Geography --
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Urbanization --
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New Ideologies, New Desertions --
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Hybridization vs. Fundamentalization --
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Conclusions.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-063126-0
Language:
English
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