Hasidic Studies – Essays in History and Gender Rapoport–albert Rosman Paperback

Hasidic StudiesEssays in History and Gender\nAuthor(s): Ada Rapoport-Albert\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization\nISBN-13: 9781906764821, 978-1906764821\nSynopsis\nWith an introduction by Moshe Rosman.\n\n Ada Rapoport-Albert has been a key player in the profound transformation of the history of hasidism that has taken shape since the 1970s. She has never lacked the courage to question conventional wisdom, but neither has she overturned it lightly. The essays in this volume show the erudition and creativity of her contribution to rewriting the master-narrative of hasidic history. Thanks to her we now know that eighteenth-century hasidism evolved in a context of intense spirituality rather than political, social, economic, or religious crisis. It did not represent the movements classic period and was not a project of democratization, ameliorating the hierarchical structuring of religion and spiri.