TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rapoport-Albert, Ada
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Hasidic studies: essays in history and gender
T3  - The Littman library of Jewish civilization
PB  - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
CY  - Liverpool, UK
KW  - Hasidism
KW  - History
AB  - 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
SN  - 9781906764821
LA  - English
N1  - Ada Rapoport-Albert ; with an introduction by Moshe Rosman
ID  - 874797551
ER  -