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Auteur(s) : Rapoport-Albert, Ada (1945-2020)
Titre(s) : Hasidic studies [Texte imprimé] : essays in history and gender / Ada Rapoport-Albert
Publication : Liverpool : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization : in association with Liverpool
University Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-522 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 471-501. Index
"Ada Rapoport-Albert has been a key player in the profound transformation of the history
of hasidism that has taken shape since the 1970s. She has never lacked the courage
to question conventional wisdom, but neither has she overturned it lightly. The essays
in this volume show the erudition and creativity of her contribution to rewriting
the master-narrative of hasidic history. Thanks to her we now know that eighteenth-century
hasidism evolved in a context of intense spirituality rather than political, social,
economic, or religious crisis. It did not represent the movement's 'classic period'
and was not a project of democratization, ameliorating the hierarchical structuring
of religion and spirituality. [...] Somewhat surprisingly there was no attempt to
introduce any revision of women's status and role; in the examination of this area
of hasidism Rapoport-Albert's contribution has been singularly revealing. Her work
has emphasized that, contrary to hasidism's thrust towards spiritualization of the
physical, the movement persisted in identifying women with an irredeemable materiality:
women could never escape their inherent sexuality and attain the spiritual heights.
[...] The essays in this volume are a fitting statement of Professor Rapoport-Albert's
importance to the study of hasidism, to Jewish studies as a whole, and to the academic
scrutiny of religion. Written over a period of forty years, they have been updated
for this volume with regard to significant detail and to take account of important
works of scholarship written after they were originally published"--front flap
Sujet(s) : Hassidisme
Femmes et judaïsme
Juives -- Spiritualité
Indice(s) Dewey :
296.833 2 (23e éd.) = Hassidisme
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781906764821 (br.). - ISBN 1906764824
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45785381w
Notice n° :
FRBNF45785381
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Table des matières : 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 Bratslav. 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.
Horodetsky 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.
