Preface

pp v-viii

Contents

pp ix-xii

Notes on Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction

pp xvii-xxiv

PART I - JOSEPH G. WEISS AS A STUDENT OF HASIDISM

pp 1-2

1 - Joseph G. Weiss: A Personal Appraisal

pp 3-9

2 - Joseph Weiss: Letters to Ora

pp 10-42

PART II - TOWARDS A NEW SOCIAL HISTORY OF HASIDISM

pp 43-44

3 - The Conditions in Jewish Society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Middle Decades of the Eighteenth Century

pp 45-50

4 - Social Conflicts in Międzybóż in the Generation of the Besht

pp 51-62

5 - Hasidism and the Kahal in Eastern Europe

pp 63-75

6 - Hasidism after 1772: Structural Continuity and Change

pp 76-140

7 - The Hasidic Managing Editor as an Agent of Culture

pp 141-156

PART III - THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF MYSTICAL IDEALS IN HASIDISM

pp 157-158

8 - The Zaddik: The Interrelationship between Religious Doctrine and Social Organization

pp 159-167

9 - The Paradigms of Yesh and Ayin in Hasidic Thought

pp 168-179

10 - Walking as a Sacred Duty: Theological Transformation of Social Reality in Early Hasidism

pp 180-207

11 - Hasidism and the Dogma of the Decline of the Generations

pp 208-213

12 - Personal Redemption in Hasidism

pp 214-224

13 - Hasidism as a Socio-religious Movement on the Evidence of Devekut

pp 225-248

PART IV - DISTINCTIVE OUTLOOKS AND SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT WITHIN HASIDISM

pp 249-250

14 - The Influence of Reshit ḥokhmah on the Teachings of the Maggid of Mezhirech

pp 251-257

15 - Torah lishmah as a Central Concept in the Degel maḥaneh Efrayim of Moses Hayyim Ephraim of Sudylkow

pp 258-267

16 - The Teachings of R. Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk

pp 268-287

17 - Habad Approaches to Contemplative Prayer, 1790-1920

pp 288-300

18 - The Fluidity of Categories in Hasidism: Averah lishmah in the Teachings of R. Zevi Elimelekh of Dynow

pp 301-320

19 - R. Naphtali Zevi of Ropczyce (‘the Ropshitser’) as a Hasidic Leader

pp 321-342

PART V - THE HASIDIC TALE

pp 343-344

20 - New Light on the Hasidic Tale and its Sources

pp 345-353