On writing about the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe and his Hasidim

When Menachem Friedman and I resolved to write what became The Rebbe: The Life and the Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, we did so because as sociologists we were puzzled, as we put it in our preface, by how a “a small Hasidic group that seemed on the verge of collapse in 1950 with the death...

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Main Author: Heilman, Samuel C. 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2011]
In: AJS review
Year: 2011, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 393-400
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Schneerson, Menachem Mendel 1902-1994 / Hasidim / Messianism / Sociology / Perspective
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Consuls
B Afterlife
B Sons
B Judaism
B Writing
B Book publishing
B Rabbis
B Archives
B Hasidic Jews
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