The Hasidim, or "pious ones" in Hebrew, belong to a special movement within Orthodox Judaism, a movement that, at its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, claimed the allegiance of ...

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 ...

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For the past half-century, I have been reading and studying the sources of Hasidism with both affection and respect. I have worked as a historian of Hasidic thought and, more recently, as a theologian ...

JTA — Rabbi Art Green is a scholar of worldwide renown, the author of dozens of books, one of the world’s leading experts on Hasidic Judaism and perhaps the only person ever to lead two different ...

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 ...

In some ways, the boundary between Judaism and Christianity is a boundary about boundaries — specifically, what separates humanity from God, and whether it is ever possible to bridge the gap.

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A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, is the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community. In an historic migration after World War II, Hasidism found ...

In this volume spanning the 1870s to the present, history professor Edward Ross Dickinson explores the making of the modern world as a connected pattern of global developments in politics and ...

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 ...