Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov

Rosman Moshe

Founder of Hasidism

A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov

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Rosman Moshe, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Publisher:: Liverpool University Press
Online publication date:: July 2019
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781909821118

Subjects:: Judaism, Religion
Series:: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

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Moshe Rosman's award-winning research supplies the history behind the legend of the Ba'al Shem Tov and thus changes the master-narrative of hasidism.

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A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Preface to the Paperback Edition
pp vii-viii

Preface to the First Edition
pp ix-x

Contents
pp xi-xi

Note to the Reader
pp xii-xii

Introduction to the Paperback Edition
pp xiii-lxii

Introduction
pp 1-8

PART I - CONTEXT
pp 9-10

1 - Ba'al Shem Tov
pp 11-26

2 - Hasidism before Hasidism
pp 27-41

3 - A Country in Decline?
pp 42-62

4 - Miȩdzybóż: A Place in Time and Space
pp 63-82

5 - The Contentions of Life
pp 83-94

PART II - TEXTS
pp 95-96

6 - The Holy Epistle
pp 97-113

7 - More Besht Correspondence
pp 114-126

8 - Testimonies
pp 127-142

9 - Life Stories
pp 143-158

10 - Light from the Archives
pp 159-170

PART III - IMAGES
pp 171-172

11 - A Person of His Time
pp 173-186

12 - From the Historical Besht to the Usable Besht: The Image of the Ba'al Shem Tov in Early Habad
pp 187-212

Notes
pp 213-278

Bibliography
pp 279-296

Index
pp 297-306

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