In 1770, a young man of 18, later to be known as Solomon Maimon, traveled from Nesvizh in Lithuania to the court of Dov Ber, the foremost leader of the budding Hasidic movement, in the Polish town of ...

Scholem, G., Pirkei Yesod be-Havanat ha-Kabbalah u-Smaleiah [The Fundamentals of Understanding the Kabbalah and its Symbols], Jerusalem 1976, p. 241 [henceforth Scholem 1976/al. Wilensky, M., Hasidim ...

Editor’s Note: In 2018, the Forward published this essay raising concerns about female representation in Jewish Studies, focused on a 2017 book about Hasidism. One of its authors responded this month ...

A vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world Hasidism has attracted, repelled and bewildered philosophers, historians and theologians since its inception in the 18th ...

The only biography in English of the founder of the Chabad movement in Hasidism Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of ...

Vol. 27, No. 2/4, Special Issue: Toward A New History of Hasidism (December 2013), pp. 319-336 (18 pages) The article has two distinct parts. The first reviews the current state of scholarship on ...

Prof. David Biale will share a look at the history of Hasidism and present new findings from a team of authors who wrote the recently published “Hasidism: A New History,” the first comprehensive ...

An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ...

This biography by Ehrlich, a rabbi and philosopher of religion, is an exhaustive and painstakingly researched study of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the charismatic Habad-Lubavitcher rebbe who died in ...

The renowned scholar, whose forthcoming book aims to show the world of softer side of Hasidism, opens up on his philosophy, his motivations and his politics. (JTA) — Rabbi Art Green is a scholar of ...