Authors: Abraham Joshua Heschel
ISBN-13: 9781879045415, ISBN-10: 1879045419
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Date Published: March 1995
Edition: 1st pbk. ed
In this work Heschel explores despair and hope in Hasidism as he experienced it himself through study of the Baal Shem Tov and the Kotzker.
LJ's reviewer asserted that at the time of its publication this was "probably the best book on Hasidism to appear in the English language." Though it is not for the casual reader, those who undertake it "will be charmed by the work's depth of feeling and comprehensive scope" (LJ 8/73).