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Creativity, Community, Change: Functions of and motives for singing niggunim

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2016
Jewish musical practices stemming from Kabbalah and Hasidic mystical traditions are currently the object of growing attention among a variety of different Jewish communities in Europe and North America, as well as in non-Jewish spiritual circles.
Ruth Illman
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Kolberg and Jewish Music

Musicology Today, 2014
The world of the Jews must have attracted Kolberg, who as an educated member of the intelligentsia must have been conscious of what was happening in Judaism in his times.
Muszkalska Bożena
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COVID-19 Amongst the Ultra-Orthodox Population in Israel: An Inside Look into the Causes of the High Morbidity Rates. [PDF]

Contemp Jew, 2021
Zalcberg S, Block SZ.
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Theology and Praxis in Hasidism

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Hasidism refers to a theological and religious movement within Judaism, which began in eighteenth-century Europe in connection to Kabbalah mysticism. This article provides an overview of major themes in Hasidic teaching.
Aviezer Cohen, Ora Wiskind-Elper
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Hasidic Myth-Activism: Martin Buber’s Theopolitical Revision of Volkish Nationalism

Religions, 2019
Since the 1970s, Buber has often been suspected of being a Volkish thinker. This essay reconsiders the affinity of Buber’s late writings with Volkish ideology.
Yemima Hadad
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Therapeutic Literacies: Text, Body, and Emotion in the Jewish Spiritual Renewal

Religions
This article investigates the case of Jewish Spiritual Renewal (JSR) to illuminate the evolving landscape of Jewish textuality and therapeutic literacies shaped by spiritual, neoliberal, and therapeutic discourses.
Rachel Werczberger
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TRADITIONAL JEWISH EDUCATION IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE: CONTINUITY AND MODERNIZATION

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2018
The article deals with the traditional Jewish education in the Russian Empire of the 19th - early 20th centuries. The author pays great attention to the key Judaic Religious Academy - yeshiva of Volozhin (Belarussia-Lithuania) as it existed from 1802 to ...
Alexandre E Lokshin
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Pamiętnik chasydki, czyli "Reszimas zichrojnes" Chany Schneersohn

Autobiografia
The article is an analysis of a Hasidic ego-document written in Yiddish by Chana Schneersohn (1880-1964). A case study of the diary of an Orthodox author, set in the broader context of female intimacy and the rules of the Hasidic world, allows for the ...
Jadwiga Czeska
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Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This article discusses the main challenges that secularization presented to Judaism and to Jewish thought, and maps the key strategies and central thinkers who responded to this challenge, from the eighteenth century up to the turn of the twenty-first ...
Zohar Maor, Ori Werdiger
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Ritual as Mnemonic: Weaving Jewish Law with Symbolic Networks in Likkutei Halakhot by R. Nathan Sternhartz

Religions
Ritual has long served as a central axis of religious life, not only structuring practice but also transmitting meaning across generations. This article offers a new perspective on how Hasidic thought reconfigures the medieval Jewish genre of ta‘amei ha ...
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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