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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467011803321

Autore

Rosman Murray Jay

Titolo

Founder of Hasidism : a quest for the historical Ba'al Shem Tov / / Moshe Rosman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2020

ISBN

1-80034-080-X

1-909821-11-X

Edizione

[Electronic form]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (lxi, 306 pages)

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

296.8332092

Soggetti

Hasidim - Ukraine

Rabbis - Ukraine

Hasidism - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2013.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Ba'al Shem Tov is an elusive subject for historians because documentary evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal. Until now, much of what was known about him was based on stories compiled more than a generation after his death, many of which serve more to mythologize him than to describe him. The portrait that this work provides is drawn from life instead of from myth. The text goes further than any previous work in uncovering the historical Ba'al Shem Tov.