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Analytic Hasidism

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2022
. Sam Lebens has written a richly inventive and thought-provoking book that contributes greatly to philosophy of religion and to contemporary Jewish philosophy. While there is much that merits response, I will focus here on one central theme of the book:
P. Franks
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ANALYTIC HASIDISM: REFLECTIONS ON SAM LEBENS’ PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2022
 Sam Lebens has written a richly inventive and thought-provoking book that contributes greatly to philosophy of religion and to contemporary Jewish philosophy.
Paul FRANKS
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Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882) and the False Twilight of Chabad Hasidism

AJS Review, 2021
The maskilic characterization of the nineteenth century as a period of decline and ossification for Hasidism is increasingly eschewed by scholars, yet continues to mark current research in significant ways.
E. Rubin
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“The Secret of that Herb”: Mystical Smoking from Italian Sabbateanism to Hasidism

Modern Judaism (Print), 2021
:This article is dedicated to the notion of “mystical smoking” in Kabbalah and Hasidism. In spite of the fact that many researchers have dealt with the smoking habits of the Hasidim, the sources and meanings of this behavior have not yet been fully ...
Tzvi Luboshitz
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Martin Buber’s Essence of Hasidism in The Legend of the Baal-Shem and Tales of the Hasidim

Iggrot Ha'Ari
The existentialist philosopher Martin Buber focuses much of his scholarly attention on revealing the spiritual core of Hasidism. While the historian Gershom Scholem criticizes Buber’s methods for their lack of historical grounding, Buber argues ...
Rose Clubok
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The Destruction of the House of Chernobyl: New Sources on Ukrainian Hasidism during the 1919–21 Pogroms

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
:The Russian Civil War pogroms and Ukrainian Hasidism have been extensively researched. Yet little is known about their convergence, that is, the impact of the pogroms on Hasidism and its most popular Ukrainian school, Chernobyl. The following eyewitness
Glenn Dynner, Netta Ehrlich
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The Cultural and Social Context of the Hasidic Sermon in Early Hasidism

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
:This article explores the cultural and rhetorical development of the Hasidic sermon from its early stages in the eighteenth century through the nineteenth century, placing it within the broader context of Jewish homiletics in Eastern and Central Europe.
Roee Goldschmidt
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Neo-Hasidism: The Questions Are Theological

Modern Judaism (Print)
:The article opens with a brief definitional and historical summary of the phenomenon called Neo-Hasidism, referring to the adoption of Hasidic modes of thought, devotion, and praxis by Jews outside the traditional Hasidic communities.
Arthur Green
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Hasidism:

1996
This chapter examines the third century of hasidism, considered the most enduring phenomenon in Orthodox Judaism in modern times. Gershom Scholem described hasidism as the ‘last phase’ in a Jewish mystical tradition that spanned nearly two millennia.
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Marriage, leadership, and dynasties in Hasidism: big data approach

Religion
Marital strategies are of significant importance in socio-religious movements with dynastic leadership. This article investigates marital strategies among the leaders of Hasidism, arguably the most prominent socio-religious movement of modern Jewry.
Marcin Wodziński, Uriel Gellman, Gadi Sagiv   +2 more
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