Authors: Immanuel Etkes
ISBN-13: 9781584654223, ISBN-10: 1584654228
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: New Edition
IMMANUEL ETKES is the Bella and Israel Unterberg Professor of History of the Jewish People and Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. A prolific author, Etkes has published in Hebrew several works on major religious movements in the modern period including Hasidism and the Musar movement. He has published critically acclaimed monographs on the lives of major Jewish religious figures, including the The Gaon of Vilna: The Man and His Image (2002).
Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism
Ch. 1 | Magic and miracle workers in the days of the Baal Shem Tov | 7 |
Ch. 2 | Israel Baal Shem | 46 |
Ch. 3 | A leader of the Jewish people | 79 |
Ch. 4 | The Besht as mystic and pioneer in divine worship | 113 |
Ch. 5 | The Besht and his circle | 152 |
Ch. 6 | The historicity of Shivhei Habesht | 203 |
Conclusion : the Besht and the founding of Hasidism | 249 | |
App. I | Magic and miracle workers in the literature of the Haskalah | 259 |
App. II | The Besht's epistle | 272 |
App. III | The versions of the Besht's epistle | 282 |