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Author Magid, Shaul, 1958- author.

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

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Encountering traditions
Encountering traditions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Summary Hasidism Incarnate contends that much of modern Judaism in the West developed in reaction to Christianity and in defense of Judaism as a unique tradition. Ironically enough, this occurred even as modern Judaism increasingly dovetailed with Christianity with regard to its ethos, aesthetics, and attitude toward ritual and faith. Shaul Magid argues that the Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe constitutes an alternative ""modernity, "" one that opens a new window on Jewish theological history. Unlike Judaism in German lands, Hasidism did not develop under a ""Christian gaze"" and had no need to be a.
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Subject Hasidism -- Doctrines.
Hasidism -- Doctrines.
Hasidism.
Incarnation.
Incarnation.
Mysticism -- Judaism -- History.
Mysticism -- Judaism.
History.
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
Judaism.
Relations.
Christianity.
Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-
Chronological Term Since 1750
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Magid, Shaul, 1958- Hasidism incarnate 9780804791304 (DLC) 2014035430 (OCoLC)880237419
ISBN 9780804793469 (electronic book)
0804793468 (electronic book)
9780804791304
0804791309