{"product_id":"hasidism-key-questions-9780190631260","title":"Hasidism: Key Questions","description":"Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Innovative and\u003cbr\u003emultidisciplinary in its approach, \u003cem\u003e Hasidism: Key Questions\u003c\/em\u003e discusses the most cardinal features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline. This is the first attempt to respond those central questions in one book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecognizing the major limitations of the existing research on Hasidism, Marcin Wodzinski's Hasidism offers four important corrections. First, it offers anti-elitist corrective attempting to investigate Hasidism beyond its leaders into the masses of the rank-and-file followers. Second, it introduces\u003cbr\u003enew types of sources, rarely or never used in research on Hasidism, including archival documents, Jewish memorial books, petitionary notes, quantitative and visual materials. Third, it covers the whole classic period of Hasidism from its institutional maturation at the end of the eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003eto its major crisis and decline in wake of the First World War. Finally, instead of focusing on intellectual history, the book offers a multi-disciplinary approach with the modern methodologies of the corresponding disciplines: sociology and anthropology of religion, demography, historical geography\u003cbr\u003eand more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy combining some oldest, central questions with radically new sources, perspectives, and methodologies, \u003cem\u003eHasidism: Key Questions\u003c\/em\u003e will provide a radically new look at many central issues in historiography of Hasidism, one of the most important religious movements of modern Eastern Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcin Wodzinski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190631260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarcin Wodzinski\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Jewish History and Literature at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. His special fields of interest are Jewish material culture and the social history of Jews in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, especially the history of Hasidism and Haskalah. His books include: \u003cem\u003eHebrew Inscriptions in Silesia 13th-18th c.\u003c\/em\u003e (Pol., 1996), \u003cem\u003eHaskalah and Hasidism\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), \u003cem\u003eHasidism and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), and \u003cem\u003eHistorical Atlas of Hasidism\u003c\/em\u003e (2018).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929208832115,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":87.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b27fbd82-fd44-44e0-bf5b-bba634de3794.jpg?v=1647611462","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/hasidism-key-questions-9780190631260","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}