Hasidism & the Jewish Enlightenment: their confrontation in Galicia & Poland in the 1st half of the 19th century
1985, First Edition. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420977
ISBN: 0827602332
Physical description; xvii, 411 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Translation of: ha- asidut eha-Ha kalah. Pt. 1 originally in Yiddish; pt. 2 originally in Hebrew, translated from the Yiddish by Eugene Orenstein ; translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein. Contents; I. Galicia : The sociopolitcal foundations of Hasidism in Galicia in the first half of the nineteenth century -- The sociopolitical foundations of the Haskalah in Galicia -- The policy of the Austrian government toward Hasidism -- The Austrian censorship of Jewish books -- Joseph Perl's struggle against Hasidism -- Joseph Perl's Hebrew almanacs -- II. Poland : The socioeconomic and political status of the Jews in Central Poland -- Brooks of assimilation and buds of enlightenment -- Two schools of Hasidism in Poland -- The policy of the Polish government toward Hasidism -- Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish terms. Subjects; Hasidism Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) History 19th century. Hasidism Poland History 19th century. Haskalah Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) History 19th century. Haskalah Poland History 19th century. Jews Poland Intellectual life 19th century.
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