@Book{874797551,
author="Rapoport-Albert, Ada",
title="Hasidic studies: essays in history and gender",
series="The Littman library of Jewish civilization",
year="2018",
publisher="The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press",
address="Liverpool, UK",
keywords="Hasidism; History",
abstract="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",
note="Ada Rapoport-Albert ; with an introduction by Moshe Rosman",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9781906764821",
language="English"
}