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OverviewPiety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the devotional life beyond the borders of conventional religious practice. Many of the essays exhibit a comparative perspective deployed to better articulate the innovative spirit, and traditional challenges, Hasidism presents to the traditional Jewish world. Piety and Rebellion is an attempt to present Hasidism as one case whereby maximalist religion can yield a rebellious challenge to conventional conceptions of religious thought and practice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shaul MagidPublisher: Academic Studies Press Imprint: Academic Studies Press Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9781618117519ISBN 10: 1618117513 Pages: 580 Publication Date: 28 March 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction—My Way to (Neo) Ḥasidism Early Ḥasidism Chapter 1 “What happened, happened”: R. Ya’akov Yosef of Polonnoye on Interpretation Chapter 2 The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the Ẓaddik in Early Ḥasidism Chapter 3 The Intolerance of Tolerance: Maḥaloket (Controversy) and Redemption in Early Ḥasidism Chapter 4 The Ritual Is Not the Hunt: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and Jewish Ritual as Fantasy in R. Shneur Zalman of Liady Chapter 5 Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav’s “The Tale of the Seven Beggars” Later Ḥasidism Chapter 6 Modernity as Heresy: The Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth’s Shomer Emunim Chapter 7 The Holocaust as Inverted Miracle: R. Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the Divine Nature of Radical Evil Chapter 8 The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking Ḥabad Messianism Chapter 9 Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira’s Eish Kodesh Chapter 10 American Jewish Fundamentalism: Ḥabad, Satmar, ArtScrollReviewsIn pieces that span two decades of research, Magid's refined thinking interrogates Hasidism(s), as it appeared in moments ranging from the early generation of pioneering piety surrounding the Ba'al Shem Tov to contemporary anti-Zionist Satmar. He navigates the Hasidic underground and yeshivah life as a participant observer while offering critical analyses that move toward a more global religious criticism asking bigger questions from Jewish sources. ... Here are essays from a scholar who fuses the rebellious piety of Oleksa Dovbush, Ukrainian Robin Hood and driver of the Ba'al Shem Tov's horse and buggy, with the pious rebellion of Ken Kesey, the all-American author who drove his Merry Pranksters on their Furthur bus across America through and beyond the psychedelic-a true rough guide for the future study of religion still busy being born. - Aubrey L. Glazer, Shaare Zion Congregation, Religious Studies Review (September 2020: Vol. 46, no. 3) One distinguishing element of the essays contained in this volume, and of Magid's work more generally, is a willingness to engage in interpretive play at the intersections where Kabbalah and Hasidism converge. In addition to its eclectic quality, another feature that distinguishes Piety and Rebellion is the book's bold autobiographical introduction. Here, Magid recounts his own captivating journey. It is the story of a restless intellectual, who, fashioning himself both an insider and an outsider, has sustained his soul on everything from macrobiotics and LSD to the yeshivas of Jerusalem, from the rabbinate to the Ivy League. ... I find Piety and Rebellion to be a stimulating addition to the scholarship on Hasidism by one of its most energetic, creative, and politically engaged interpreters. There is much to praise in these studies, which are as varied as the variegated corpus of Hasidism itself. - Jeremy Phillip Brown, McGill University, H-Judaic One distinguishing element of the essays contained in this volume, and of Magid's work more generally, is a willingness to engage in interpretive play at the intersections where Kabbalah and Hasidism converge. In addition to its eclectic quality, another feature that distinguishes Piety and Rebellion is the book's bold autobiographical introduction. Here, Magid recounts his own captivating journey. It is the story of a restless intellectual, who, fashioning himself both an insider and an outsider, has sustained his soul on everything from macrobiotics and LSD to the yeshivas of Jerusalem, from the rabbinate to the Ivy League. ... I find Piety and Rebellion to be a stimulating addition to the scholarship on Hasidism by one of its most energetic, creative, and politically engaged interpreters. There is much to praise in these studies, which are as varied as the variegated corpus of Hasidism itself. --Jeremy Phillip Brown, McGill University, H-Judaic One distinguishing element of the essays contained in this volume, and of Magid's work more generally, is a willingness to engage in interpretive play at the intersections where Kabbalah and Hasidism converge. In addition to its eclectic quality, another feature that distinguishes Piety and Rebellion is the book's bold autobiographical introduction. Here, Magid recounts his own captivating journey. It is the story of a restless intellectual, who, fashioning himself both an insider and an outsider, has sustained his soul on everything from macrobiotics and LSD to the yeshivas of Jerusalem, from the rabbinate to the Ivy League. ... I find Piety and Rebellion to be a stimulating addition to the scholarship on Hasidism by one of its most energetic, creative, and politically engaged interpreters. There is much to praise in these studies, which are as varied as the variegated corpus of Hasidism itself. -Jeremy Phillip Brown, McGill University, H-Judaic Author InformationShaul Magid is the Jay and Jeanie Schottensten Professor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He is a member of the American Academy of Jewish Research. His work spans the areas of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Modern Jewish Thought and Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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