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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777816103321

Autore

Magid Shaul <1958->

Titolo

Hasidism on the margin : reconciliation, antinomianism, and messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism / / Shaul Magid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisc. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-26942-9

9786612269424

0-299-19273-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 400 pages)

Collana

Modern Jewish philosophy and religion. Translations and critical studies

Disciplina

296.8/332

Soggetti

Hasidism

Hasidism - Poland - Izbica

Hasidism - Poland - Radzyń Podlaski

Judaism and philosophy

Antinomianism

Reconciliation

Messianism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-393) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of lzbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh founded in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.