Imagining Holiness
Classic Hasidic Tales in Modern Times
In Imagining Holiness Justin Lewis offers a radical reappraisal of how we think of Hasidic tales, calling into question received notions of authenticity. He focuses his study on the neglected Hasidic literature of the early twentieth century - primarily the work of Israel Berger and Abraham Hayim Michelson - and the literary and historical dynamics of its emergence, posing questions about its place in Hasidic society, the attitude of the Hasidim towards this literature, and orality in Hasidic tradition as manifested in these Hasidic books. Berger and Michelson wrote in the decade before the First World War, a time of loss and decline for Hasi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7735-8304-7
- EAN: 9780773583047
- Produktnummer: 35548929
- Verlag: Mqup
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Justin Jaron Lewis is assistant professor of religion, University of Manitoba.
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