Research Catalog

Title

Hasidism incarnate : Hasidism, Christianity, and the construction of modern Judaism / Shaul Magid.

Author

Magid, Shaul, 1958-

Publication

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xii, 271 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Encountering traditions

Uniform Title

Encountering traditions.

Subjects

• Mysticism > Judaism
• Incarnation
• Interfaith relations
• Judaism > Modern period
• Hasidism > Doctrines
• Christianity
• History
• Mysticism > Judaism > History
• Judaism > Relations > Christianity
• Since 1750
• Judaism > History > Modern period, 1750-

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-261) and index.

Contents

Introduction : incarnation and incarnational thinking -- Divinization and incarnational thinking in Hasidism : an overview -- Charisma speaking: uniqueness, incarnation, and sacred language (lashon ha-kodesh) in Nahman of Bratslav's self-fashioning -- Jewish ethics through a Hasidic lens: incarnation, the law, and the universal -- Malkhut as kenosis: malkhut and the zaddik in Yaʻakov Koppel Lifshitz of Mezritch's Shaʻarei Gan Eden -- "Brother where art thou?": reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev -- Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the specter of Hasidism.

Call Number

*PQV 15-48

ISBN

• 9780804791304
• 0804791309

LCCN

2014035430

OCLC

880237419

Author

Magid, Shaul, 1958- author.

Title

Hasidism incarnate : Hasidism, Christianity, and the construction of modern Judaism / Shaul Magid.

Publisher

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Encountering traditions

Encountering traditions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-261) and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1750

Research Call Number

*PQV 15-48