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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 15: Focusing on Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 15: Focusing on Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900

Polonsky, Antony
Polonsky, Antony

Paperback

Series: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Book 15

Religion General JudaismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1874774722
ISBN13: 9781874774723
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Nov 1 2002
Pages: 574
Weight: 2.20
Height: 1.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This volume highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world. It covers a range of topics. Three articles deal with rabbinic scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and a fourth presents accounts of Purim festivities at that time. The eighteenth-century studies focus on Jewish spirituality. Four articles deal with the Frankist movement, the main topics being Frankist propaganda; non-Christian Frankists; Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Frankists; and the influence of Frankism on Polish culture. There are four articles on hasidism-on the tsadik and the ba'al shem; the childhood of tsadikim in hasidic legends; the fall of the Seer of Lublin; and the hasidism of Gur-and one about Nahman Krochmal. Of the contributors to the core section on Jewish spiritual and religious life, four are Polish. Three contributors are working in Germany, where Jewish studies is likewise re-establishing

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