Hasidism Reappraised.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Joseph G. Weiss as a Student of Hasidism -- 1: Joseph G. Weiss: A Personal Appraisal -- 2: Joseph Weiss: Letters to Ora -- Part II: Towards A New Social History of Hasidism -- 3: The Conditions in Jewish Society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Middle Decades of the Eighteenth Century -- 4: Social Conflicts in Międzybóz in the Generation of the Besht -- 5: Hasidism and the Kahal in Eastern Europe -- 6: Hasidism after 1772: Structural Continuity and Change -- 7: The Hasidic Managing Editor as an Agent of Culture -- Part III: The Social Function of Mystical Ideals in Hasidism -- 8: The Zaddik: The Interrelationship between Religious Doctrine and Social Organization -- 9: The Paradigms of Yesh and Ayin in Hasidic Thought -- 10: Walking as a Sacred Duty: Theological Transformation of Social Reality in Early Hasidism -- 11: Hasidism and the Dogma of the Decline of the Generations -- 12: Personal Redemption in Hasidism -- 13: Hasidism as a Socio-religious Movement on the Evidence of Devekut -- Part IV: Distinctive Outlooks and Schools of thought within Hasidism -- 14: The Influence of Reshit hokhmah on the Teachings of the Maggid of Mezhirech -- 15: Torah Lishmah as a Central Concept in the Degel Mahaneh Efrayim of Moses Hayyim Ephraim of Sudylkow -- 16: The Teachings of R. Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk -- 17: Habad Approaches to Contemplative Prayer, 1790-1920 -- 18: The Fluidity of Categories in Hasidism: Averah Lishmah in the Teachings of R. Zevi Elimelekh of Dynow -- 19: R. Naphtali Zevi of Ropczyce ('the Ropshitser') as a Hasidic Leader -- Part V: The Hasidic Tale -- 20: New Light on the Hasidic Tale and its Sources -- 21: The Source Value of the Basic Recensions of Shivhei haBesht.

Part VI: The History of Hasidic Historiography -- 22: The Imprint of Haskalah Literature on the Historiography of Hasidism -- 23: The Historiography of the Hasidic Immigration to Erets Yisrael -- 24: Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism: A Critical Appraisal -- 25: Yitzhak Schiper's Study of Hasidism in Poland -- Part VII: Contemporary Hasidism -- 26: Hasidism: The Third Century -- 27: Differences in Attitudes to Study and Work between Present-day Hasidim and Mitnaggedim: A Sociological View -- Part VIII: The Present State of Research on Hasidism: An Overview -- 28: Early Hasidism: Some Old/New Questions -- 29: The Study of Hasidism: Past Trends and New Directions -- Index -- Bibliography.

This volume is arranged under seven headings: the social history of Hasidism; the social functions of the mystical ideals; distinctive schools of thought within Hasidism; the Hasidic tale; the history of Hasidic historiography; contemporary Hasidism; and present research on Hasidism.

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