Second Thoughts: Unknown Yiddish Texts and New Perspectives on the Study of Hasidism
This study explores an important Hasidic manuscript rediscovered among the papers of Abraham Joshua Heschel at Duke University. The text, first noted by Heschel in the 1950s, is a collection of sermons by the famed tzaddik Judah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger (d. 1905). These homilies are significant becau...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Zutot
Year: 2017, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 88-98 |
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Hasidism
Jewish mysticism
Jewish studies
orality
manuscript studies
Eastern European Jewish history
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