Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Hasidism Reappraised
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1996) 10-41
Keywords:
Weiss, J. G. Correspondence
;
Hasidism Historiography
Abstract:
Twenty letters that Joseph Weiss sent to Ora Willensky during the years 1949-1968 are published here for the first time in English translation. They offer an insight into Weiss’s spiritual constitution and into the extraordinary friendship that developed between him and Professor Gershom Scholem, its vicissitudes notwithstanding. The letters date back to the years when Weiss was an ardent student of Scholem’s at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and continue through the years he spent in England, where he eventually became the director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College London, where he was engaged in research on Jewish mysticism and Hasidism.
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