Studying Hasidism – Sources, Methods, Perspectives Wodzinski Katz Sagiv Cooper

Studying HasidismSources, Methods, Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Marcin Wodzinski, Maya Balakirsky Katz, Gadi Sagiv, Levi Cooper, David Assaf, Shaul Magid, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Uriel Gellman, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Vladimir Levin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978804227, 978-1978804227\nSynopsis\nHasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the [url] Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly interest in Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic Jews is growing, but there is no textbook dedicated to research methods in the field, nor sources for the history of Hasidism have been properly recognized. Studying Hasidism, edited by Marcin Wodzi?ski, an internationally recognized historian of Hasidism, aims to remedy this gap. The work's thirteenchapters each draws upon a set of different sources, many of them previously untap.