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  • A Fire Burns in Kotsk

    A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

    by Menashe Unger ...
    Translated by Jonathan Boyarin ...
    A vivid novelistic account that details a crucial period in the evolution of Polish Hasidism, translated from Yiddish.Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger's A Fire Burns ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Margins of Orthodoxy

    Edited by Schneur Zalman Newfield, Jessica Lang, Glenn Dynner, Joshua Shanes ...
    Among scholars of Jewish Studies, the process, history, and literature of exiting one’s native religious community is increasingly recognized as a new area within the field which, ironically, has a history stretching back to antiquity. By presenting scholarship from a diverse range of disciplines—including history, sociology, psychology, and gender studies—this volume deepens and broadens readers’ ... Read more

    $80.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture

    Between Practice and Phantasm

    by Judith Kalik, Benjamin Vogel, Beth Holmgren, Glenn Dynner, Eliza Rose, Alexander Lindskog, Iwona Kurz, Magdalena Zatorska, Sławomir Sikora ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality, it also functioned as a multifaceted hub for business, leisure, and religious festivities, reflecting its vital role in the community.In The Jewish Inn: Between Practice and Phantasm, editors Halina Goldberg and Bożena ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Yankel's Tavern

    Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland

    by Glenn Dynner ...
    Awarded Honorable Mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who owned taverns throughout the formerly Polish lands believed that only Jews were sober enough to run taverns profitably, a belief so ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Men of Silk

    The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society

    by Glenn Dynner ...
    Hasidism, a kabbalah-inspired movement founded by Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (c1700-1760), transformed Jewish communities across Eastern and East Central Europe. In Men of Silk, Glenn Dynner draws upon newly discovered Polish archival material and neglected Hebrew testimonies to illuminate Hasidism's dramatic ascendancy in the region of Central Poland during the early nineteenth century. Dynner ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Light of Learning

    Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust

    by Glenn Dynner ...
    The Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to be in shambles. Hasidic leaders had dispersed, Hasidic courts lay in ruins, and the youth seemed swept up in secularist trends as a result of mandatory public schooling and new Jewish movements like Zionism and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies

    Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson

    Edited by Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, Shaul Magid ...
    The work of Elliot R. Wolfson has profoundly influenced the fields of Jewish studies as well as philosophy and religion more broadly. His radically new approaches have created pioneering ways of analyzing texts and thinking about religion through the lens of gender, sexuality, and feminist theory. The contributors to New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. ... Read more

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