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Format: 1 online resource (488 pages)

Series Statement: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part 1 Manuscripts -- Chapter 1 Hasidic Prayer Book -- Continuity and Change -- Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation) -- Avraham Abulafia: Permutations of God's Name -- 'Iyyun Circle -- Mantua Printing Houses -- Ktav Malakhim (Angelic Writing) -- Hasidei Ashkenaz (Medieval German Pietists) -- Kaddish de'Rabbanan (Rabbi's Kaddish) -- Temple Menorah in Micrography -- Early Precedents for Figurative Illustration -- Significance -- Mikveh (Ritual Bath) -- Sabbath Table -- Hekhalot (Palaces) -- Cherubs of Keter (The Kedushah Prayer) -- Conclusion -- Part 2 Ritual Objects -- Chapter 2 Hasidic Wine Cup -- Continuity and Change -- Wine Cup -- Hasidic Wine Cup -- Models -- Maggid's Epl-Becher -- Bohush Epl-Becher -- Boyan Safed Epl-Becher -- Kopyczynce Epl-Becher -- Stefanesçu Rose-Embossed Beaker -- Significance -- Shekhinah Speaking from the Throat of Man -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Hasidic Seder Plate -- Continuity and Change -- Seder Plate -- Hasidic Seder Plate -- Models -- Chernobyl Seder Plate -- Ruzhin and Sadigora Seder Plate -- Peshkan Seder Plate -- Bohush Seder Plate -- An-sky Expedition Seder Plate -- Influences -- Objets de Fantaisie -- Lubok Prints -- Animal Figures -- Significance -- The Divine Chariot -- Sacrificial Animals and the Image of Jacob -- Beneath the Wings of the Shekhinah -- Only for the Eyes of the Hasidic Master -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Hasidic Sabbath Lamp -- Continuity and Change -- Sabbath Lamp -- Middle East and Asia -- Central and Eastern Europe -- Hasidic Sabbath Lamp -- Models -- Jerusalem Henglaykhter -- Traveling Henglaykhter -- Twenty-Six-Wick Henglaykhter -- Significance -- Configuration according to the Ilan ha'Gadol -- Who Kindles the Henglaykhter? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament -- Continuity and Change. , Prayer Shawl Ornament -- Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament -- Models -- Ruzhin and Sadigora Atara -- Habad Atara -- Other Hasidic Atara Designs -- "Rikn-Atara" (Back Atara) of the Admor's Tallit -- Shpanyer-Arbet -- Technique -- Sasów Shpanyer-Arbet Industry -- Milieu of the Shpanyer-Arbet Workers -- Influences -- Significance -- Conclusion -- Part 3 Folk Art -- Chapter 6 The Hasidic Pipe and Snuffbox -- Continuity and Change -- Early Uses of Tobacco -- Smoking Among the Hasidic Masters -- Models -- Significance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Hasidic Talismans -- Continuity and Change -- Early Amulets and Talismanic Coins -- Pidyon ha'Nefesh (Redemption of the Soul) -- Hasidic Talismans -- Models -- Influence -- Significance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 The Hasidic Rabbi's Chair -- Continuity and Change -- Hasidic Rabbi's Chair -- Influences -- Significance -- Analysis of the Written Sources -- Dream -- Torah Sermon -- Tale -- King Solomon's Throne -- Elijah's Chair and the Empty Chair of the Messiah -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Symbolism -- Mythic Context -- Hasidic Context -- Worship through Corporeality -- The Nature of Hasidism -- New Directions in Research -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-28770-1

Language: English