ISBN:
9781611686791
,
9781611686777
Language:
English
Pages:
344 Seiten
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2015
Series Statement:
Tauber institute series for the study of European Jewry
Uniform Title:
Ba'al ha-Tanya
DDC:
296.8332092
Keywords:
Shneur Zalman 1745-1812
;
Shneur Zalman
;
Rabbis Biography
;
Belarus
;
Hasidim Biography
;
Belarus
;
Habad History
;
Rabbis Biography
;
Hasidim Biography
;
Habad History
Abstract:
"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady's rise to leadershipA leader of Hasidim -- Between center and periphery -- Sefer Shel Beinonim: the Book of Average Men -- On the front line against the mitnagdim: excommunications and prohibitions -- At the front versus the mitnagdim: the first imprisonment -- At the front against the mitnagdim: the second arrest -- Zaddikim as human beings: the conflict with Rabbi Abraham of Kalisk -- Between Napoleon and Alexander.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index
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