Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism

By:

Joseph Weiss

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

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Joseph Weiss (1918–69) showed a single-minded commitment to identifying and describing the mystical element in hasidism and to unravelling the spiritual and historical meaning of the hasidic movement. The studies collected here are still quoted in every serious study of hasidism. Joseph Dan’s Introduction, written specially for this paperback edition, examines Weiss’s scholarship both in the context of subsequent scholarly research and in the light of the resurgence of hasidism since the Second World War. He concludes that many of Weiss’s detailed, perceptive, and empathetic studies are as relevant to understanding developments in the contemporary hasidic world as they are for understanding the emergence and growth of hasidism in the eighteenth century.

Author Biography:

Joseph Weiss was Professor of Jewish Studies, University College London, from 1966 until his death in 1969. David Goldstein, late Curator of Hebrew Books and Manuscripts at the British Library, was awarded the Webber Prize 1987 for this translation shortly before he died. Joseph Dan is Emeritus Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Release date Australia

November 1st, 1997

Author

Joseph Weiss

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributors

Introduction by Joseph Dan
Volume editor David Goldstein

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Pages

296

Series

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

Dimensions

156x234x15

ISBN-13

9781874774327

Product ID

1943330

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