Fire Burns in Kotsk A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland
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Erscheinungsdatum
16.02.2015
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Wayne State University PressSeitenzahl
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1581 KB
Übersetzt von
Jonathan Boyarin
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Englisch
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9780814338148
Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger's
A Fire Burns in Kotsk dramatizes this moment of division among Polish Hasidim in a historical account that reads like a novel, though the book was never billed as such. Originally published in Buenos Aires in 1949 and translated for the first time from Yiddish by Jonathan Boyarin, this volume captures an important period in the evolution of the Hasidic movement, and is itself a missing link to Hasidic oral traditions. A non-observant journalist who had grown up as the son of a prominent Hasidic rabbi, Unger incorporates stories that were told by his family into his historical account.
A Fire Burns in Kotsk begins with a threat to the new, rebellious movement within Hasidism known as "the school of...
A Fire Burns in Kotsk dramatizes this moment of division among Polish Hasidim in a historical account that reads like a novel, though the book was never billed as such. Originally published in Buenos Aires in 1949 and translated for the first time from Yiddish by Jonathan Boyarin, this volume captures an important period in the evolution of the Hasidic movement, and is itself a missing link to Hasidic oral traditions. A non-observant journalist who had grown up as the son of a prominent Hasidic rabbi, Unger incorporates stories that were told by his family into his historical account.
A Fire Burns in Kotsk begins with a threat to the new, rebellious movement within Hasidism known as "the school of...
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