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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827996603321

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, c2003

ISBN

1-282-26942-9

9786612269424

0-299-19273-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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 - Radzyn 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.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Biographical Introduction -- A Note on Translation -- A Note on the Absence of Gender-Inclusive Language -- The Piety of Secrecy -- Retrieving the Origins of Kabbala -- Recircumcising the Torah -- What Is Hasidism? -- Hasidism and the Hermeneutical Turn -- The Redemptive Foundation of Sin -- Human Perfection and the Fulfillment of Abrahamic Religion -- Reconciliation and Fragmentation -- The Law and Its Discontents -- In and Around the Law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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.