Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text

Introduction
Moshe Rosman

PART I HISTORY

Becoming a Movement
1. Hasidism After 1772: Structural Continuity and Change


Conceptualizing Leadership
2. God and the Tsadik as the Two Focal Points of Hasidic Worship
3. Confession in the Circle of R. Nahman of Braslav

Fashioning the Past
4 Hagiography with Footnotes: Edifying Tales and the Writing of History in Hasidism

PART II GENDER

Women Out?
5. From Prophetess to Madwoman: The Displacement of Female Spirituality in the Post-Sabbatian Era
6. On Women in Hasidism: S. A. Horodecky and the Maid of Ludmir Tradition

Women In?
7. The Emergence of a Female Constituency in Twentieth-Century Habad Hasidism
8. From Woman as Hasid to Woman as ‘Tsadik’ in the Teachings of the Last Two Lubavitcher Rebbes

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Ada Rapoport-Albert, who died in 2020, was Professor of Jewish Studies and head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. Moshe Rosman is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has taught and held fellowships at many universities in Europe and the United States, published several prize-winning books, and received an honorary doctorate and prestigious awards, most recently the Rothschild Prize in Jewish Studies (2020).

Reviews

'Ada Rapoport-Albert is one of the most striking figures on the field of modern Judaic studies.'
Galina Zelenina, Judaic-Slavic Journal