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