For the past half-century, I have been reading and studying the sources of Hasidism with both affection and respect. I have worked as a historian of Hasidic thought and, more recently, as a theologian ...

A vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world Hasidism has attracted, repelled and bewildered philosophers, historians and theologians since its inception in the 18th ...

Editor’s Note: In 2018, the Forward published this essay raising concerns about female representation in Jewish Studies, focused on a 2017 book about Hasidism. One of its authors responded this month ...

Hasidism met with much opposition from the Jewish establishment. The center of opposition to Hasidism in the late eighteenth century was Vilna, Lithuania, the leading city of traditional Torah study.

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In this volume spanning the 1870s to the present, history professor Edward Ross Dickinson explores the making of the modern world as a connected pattern of global developments in politics and ...

JTA — Rabbi Art Green is a scholar of worldwide renown, the author of dozens of books, one of the world’s leading experts on Hasidic Judaism and perhaps the only person ever to lead two different ...

History has a special meaning to Hasidim, as they explicitly ground themselves in the past--from their literal interpretation of the text of the Torah to the importance they place on traditional dress ...

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Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky's fascinating documentary, A Life Apart, offers a penetrating look at the seemingly impenetrable world of Hasidic Jews, a rigid enclave of "urban Puritans" that has ...