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Author:   Don Seeman ,  Daniel Reiser ,  Ariel Evan Mayse
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438484013

ISBN 10:   1438484011
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   01 June 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Hasidism and Renewal 1. The Place of Piety: Piaseczno in the Landscape of Polish Hasidism Marcin Wodziński 2. The Rebbe of Piaseczno: Between Two Trends in Hasidism Moshe Idel 3. The Devotional Talmud: Study as a Sacred Quest Ariel Evan Mayse 4. Mystical Fraternities: Jerusalem, Tiberius, and Warsaw: A Comparative Study of Goals, Structures, and Methods Zvi Leshem 5. Self-Creation through Texts: Kalonymus Kalman Shapira's Incarnational Theology David Maayan 6. Hasidism in Dialogue with Modernity: Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira's Derekh ha-Melekh Ora Wiskind Part II: Text, Theodicy, and Suffering 7. A New Reading of the Rebbe of Piaseczno's Holocaust-Era Sermons: A Review of Daniel Reiser's Critical Edition Moria Herman 8. Creative Writing in the Shadow of Death: Psychological and Phenomenological Aspects of Rabbi Shapira's Manuscript ""Sermons from the Years of Rage"" Daniel Reiser 9. Miriam, Moses, and the Divinity of Children: Human Individuation at the Cusp of Persistence and Perishability Nehemia Polen 10. Raging against Reason: Overcoming Sekhel in R. Shapira's Thought James A. Diamond 11. At the Edge of Explanation: Rethinking ""Afflictions of Love"" in Sermons from the Years of Rage Erin Leib Smokler 12. ""Living with the Times"": Historical Context in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira Henry Abramson 13. Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in Esh Kodesh Shaul Magid 14. Pain and Words: On Suffering, Hasidic Modernism, and the Phenomenological Turn Don Seeman Contributors Index"

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...a welcome contribution to the ongoing appreciation of a remarkably creative minor tzaddik who remains a major hasidic innovator of spiritual life within and beyond unprecedented times whose critical analysis in the study of religion has only begun. - Religious Studies Review Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal offers an unprecedented lens into multiple different interpretations of one remarkable man's confrontation with unspeakable evil while also exploring his broader context. - The Lehrhaus

Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal offers an unprecedented lens into multiple different interpretations of one remarkable man's confrontation with unspeakable evil while also exploring his broader context. - The Lehrhaus

Author Information

Don Seeman is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is the author of One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism. Daniel Reiser is Chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at Herzog College, Israel. His books include Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism. Ariel Evan Mayse is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh.

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