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"Ada Rapoport-Albert has been a key player in the profound transformation of the history of hasidism that has taken shape since the 1970s. She has never lacked the courage to question conventional wisdom, but neither has she overturned it lightly. The essays in this volume show the erudition and creativity of her contribution to rewriting the master-narrative of hasidic history. Thanks to her we now know that eighteenth-century hasidism evolved in a context of intense spirituality rather than political, social, economic, or religious crisis. It did not represent the movement's 'classic period' and was not a project of democratization, ameliorating the hierarchical structuring of religion and spirituality. [...] Somewhat surprisingly there was no attempt to introduce any revision of women's status and role; in the examination of this area of hasidism Rapoport-Albert's contribution has been singularly revealing. Her work has emphasized that, contrary to hasidism's thrust towards spiritualization of the physical, the movement persisted in identifying women with an irredeemable materiality: women could never escape their inherent sexuality and attain the spiritual heights. [...] The essays in this volume are a fitting statement of Professor Rapoport-Albert's importance to the study of hasidism, to Jewish studies as a whole, and to the academic scrutiny of religion. Written over a period of forty years, they have been updated for this volume with regard to significant detail and to take account of important works of scholarship written after they were originally published"--front flap.
| Title |
Hasidic studies : essays in history and gender / Ada Rapoport-Albert. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Rosman, Moshe (writer of introduction) |
| Publisher |
Liverpool : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press |
| Distributor |
New York : Oxford University Press. |
| Creation Date |
[2018] |
| Notes |
The book included an introduction by Moshe Rosman. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Content |
Part I. History. Becoming a movement -- 1. Hasidism after 1772: structural continuity and change conceptualizing leadership -- 2. God and the tsadik as the two focal points of Hasidic worship -- 3. Confession in the circle of R. Nahman of Bratslav fashioning the past -- 4. Hagiography with footnotes: edifying tales and the writing of history in Hasidism -- Part II. Gender. Women out? 5. From prophetess to madwoman: the displacement of female spirituality in the post-Sabbatian era -- 6. On women in Hasidism: S.A. Horodetsky and the maid of Ludmir tradition -- Women In? 7. The emergence of a female constituency in twentieth-century Habad Hasidism -- 8. From woman as Hasid to woman as 'tsadik' in the teachings of the last two Lubavitcher Rebbes. |
| Extent |
xii, 522 pages 24 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| Call Number |
6486.811 |
| Copyright Date |
©2018 |
| National Library system number |
990041078370205171 |
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