%0 Book
%T Hasidic studies: essays in history and gender
%A Rapoport-Albert, Ada
%S The Littman library of Jewish civilization
%D 2018
%I The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
%C Liverpool, UK
%@ 9781906764821
%G English
%F 874797551
%O Ada Rapoport-Albert ; with an introduction by Moshe Rosman
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%X 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
%L 296.8/33209
%K Hasidism
%K History
%9 Text