I would appreciate your posting the note below at Hasafran, if possible. Many thanks in advance. Best regards, marcin wodzinski We are pleased to announce the publication of the new special issue of Jewish History 27 (2013) No. 2-4 entitled: Towards A New History of Hasidism in our guest editorship
The articles, partly in open access, are available at: http://link.springer.com/journal/10835/27/2/page/1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Ada Rapoport-Albert, Moshe Rosman, Marcin Wodziński, Introduction Methodology Moshe Rosman, Hebrew Sources on the Baal Shem Tov: Usability versus Reliability Geography Marcin Wodzinski and Uriel Gellman: Toward a New Geography of Hasidism Shaul Stampfer: How and Why Did Hasidism Spread? Samuel Heilman: What's in a Name?: The Dilemma of Title and Geography for Contemporary Hasidism Social and political history David Assaf and Gadi Sagiv: Hasidism in Tsarist Russia: Historical and Social Aspects Rachel Manekin: Hasidism and the Habsburg Empire 1788-1867 Doctrines and their social implications Moshe Idel: Modes of Cleaving to the Letters in the Teachings of Israel Baal Shem Tov: A Sample Analysis Arthur Green: Hasidism and its Response to Change Immanuel Etkes: On the Motivation for the Hasidic Immigration (Aliyah) to the Land of Israel Gershon Greenberg: Hasidic Thought and the Holocaust (1933-1947): Optimism and Activism Naftali Loewenthal: The Hasidic Ethos and the Schisms of Jewish Society Gender Marcin Wodzinski: Women and Hasidism: A "Non-Sectarian" Perspective Ada Rapoport-Albert: From Woman as Hasid to Woman as "Tsadik" in the Teaching of the Last Two Lubavitcher Rebbes Benjamin Brown: Kedushah: The Sexual Abstinence of Married Men in Gur, Slonim, and Toledot Aharon Best regards, Ada Rapoport-Albert, Moshe Rosman, Marcin Wodzinski guest editors
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