LEADER 04198nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910456385103321 005 20210618231439.0 010 $a0-520-92797-4 010 $a1-282-35623-2 010 $a9786612356230 010 $a1-59734-726-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520927971 035 $a(CKB)111090529078518 035 $a(EBL)223891 035 $a(OCoLC)475929208 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000195499 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157112 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195499 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10130495 035 $a(PQKB)11553419 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056142 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223891 035 $a(OCoLC)55741664 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30488 035 $a(DE-B1597)520687 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520927971 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223891 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058573 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235623 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529078518 100 $a20040209d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe maiden of Ludmir$b[electronic resource] $ea Jewish holy woman and her world /$fNathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Bardach 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. ;$aLondon $cUniversity of California Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 225 0 $aThe S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23191-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir --$t1. A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Literary Figure --$t2. Writing the Maiden --$t3. Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden --$t4. The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden --$t5. Birth and Childhood --$t6. Love and Death --$t7. The Maiden Possessed --$t8. False Male and Woman Rebbe? --$t9. The Witch-hunt in Ludmir --$t10. The Wedding and Its Aftermath --$t11. In the Holy Land --$tConclusion: Tracing the Maiden --$tAfterword: Journey to Ludmir --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aHannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe-or charismatic leader-in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The Maiden of Ludmir offers powerful insights into the Jewish mystical tradition, into the Maiden's place within it, and into the remarkable Jewish community of Ludmir. Her biography ultimately becomes a provocative meditation on the complex relationships between history and memory, Judaism and modernity. History first finds the Maiden in the eastern European town of Ludmir, venerated by her followers as a master of the Kabbalah, teacher, and visionary, and accused by her detractors of being possessed by a dybbuk, or evil spirit. Deutsch traces the Maiden's steps from Ludmir to Ottoman Palestine, where she eventually immigrated and re-established herself as a holy woman. While the Maiden's story-including her adamant refusal to marry-recalls the lives of holy women in other traditions, it also brings to light the largely unwritten history of early-modern Jewish women. To this day, her transgressive behavior, a challenge to traditional Jewish views of gender and sexuality, continues to inspire debate and, sometimes, censorship within the Jewish community. 606 $aWomen rabbis$vBiography 606 $aZaddikot$vBiography 607 $aVolodymyr-Volyns?kyi? (Ukraine)$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen rabbis 615 0$aZaddikot 676 $a296.8332092 700 $aDeutsch$b Nathaniel$0451449 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456385103321 996 $aThe maiden of Ludmir$92452399 997 $aUNINA