This volume is an attempt to present a comprehensive treatment of the Hasidic movement. Rabbi Tzvi Rabinowicz has compiled an encyclopaedia with hundreds of entries, including personalities, topics, and important literary works.
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Hasidism, the main mystical movement in Judaism from the 18th century to the present, has had a major impact on Judaism and sparked worldwide interest among students of religion and spiritualism. This encyclopedia has hundreds of short entries?usually one to four paragraphs in length?on Hasidic concepts, movements, and personalities. When discussing such important Hasidic concepts such as dance, prayer, and education, the entries often run a page or two. Each entry is the work of either the prolific editor (The Prince Who Turned into a Rooster: 100 Tales from Hasidic Tradition, Jason Aronson, 1994) or a noted scholar. For instance, the entry on the great modern popularizer of Hasidism, Martin Buber, is written by Maurice Freedman, who has produced the standard biography of Buber. Indeed, the encyclopedia's strong point is its vast number of short biographical entries on Hasidic figures and modern non-Hasidic scholars. The standard reference work of Hasidism and the Jewish mystical tradition remains the authoritative Encyclopedia Judaica (1972). But Rabinowicz's massive work?the pages are double-columned with readable though small print?is a noteworthy addition and complement to it. Libraries with strong Judaic or religion collections will want to own it. For an informed lay audience.?Paul Kaplan, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., Ill.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Rabbi Tzvi Rabinowicz, a descendant of famous hasidic and rabbinic families in Poland, was the regional rabbi of Cricklewood, Willesden, and Brondesbury synagogues in London. A noted historian and writer, Dr. Rabinowicz obtained his Ph.D. in 1948 from the University of London. He is the author of many books, including A Guide To Life: Jewish Laws and Customs of Mourning, Treasures of Judaica, Hasidism and the State of Israel, Hasidism: The Movement and Its Masters, and The Prince Who Turned into a Rooster: One Hundred Tales from Hasidic Tradition.
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Tzvi M. Rabinowicz one of the great scholars of Hasidism has gathered together an all- star cast of Jewish thinkers and scholars in order to provide a comprehensive encyclopedia to Hasidism. While the entries are the concepts are important, somehow the feeling is that Hasidism in which there were so many great original spiritual figures is best understood through the stories of the lives of the great masters.
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