Founder of Hasidism : a quest for the historical Ba'al Shem Tov | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:Biography

Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN:

9780520916760, 9780585057125, 9780520201910, 052091676X, 0585057125, 0520201914

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:44962956

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Contents:

Ba'al Shem Tov

Hasidism before Hasidism

A country in decline?

Miedzyboz : a place in time and space

The contentions of life

The Holy Epistle

More Besht correspondence

Testimonies

Life stories

Light from the archives

A person of his time

From the historical Besht to the usable Besht : the image of the Ba'al Shem Tov in early Habad