Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social
movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most
significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life
of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe from the eighteenth
century up to the present day. Innovative and multidisciplinary in
its approach, Hasidism: Key Questions discusses the most cardinal
features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender,
leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline. This
is the first attempt to respond those central questions in one
book. Recognizing the major limitations of the existing research on
Hasidism, Marcin Wodzinski's Hasidism offers four important
corrections. First, it offers anti-elitist corrective attempting to
investigate Hasidism beyond its leaders into the masses of the
rank-and-file followers. Second, it introduces new types of
sources, rarely or never used in research on Hasidism, including
archival documents, Jewish memorial books, petitionary notes,
quantitative, and visual materials. Third, it covers the whole
classic period of Hasidism from its institutional maturation at the
end of the eighteenth century to its major crisis and decline in
wake of the First World War. Finally, instead of focusing on
intellectual history, the book offers a multi-disciplinary approach
with the modern methodologies of the corresponding disciplines:
sociology and anthropology of religion, demography, historical
geography and more. By combining some oldest, central questions
with radically new sources, perspectives, and methodologies,
Hasidism: Key Questions will provide a radically new look at many
central issues in historiography of Hasidism, one of the most
important religious movements of modern Eastern Europe.
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