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Paperback LITTMAN Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov, 2nd Edition Book

ISBN: 1906764441

ISBN13: 9781906764449

LITTMAN Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov, 2nd Edition

(Part of the Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series)

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The Ba'al Shem Tov is an elusive subject for historians because documentary evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal. Until now, much of what was known about him was based on stories compiled more than a generation after his death, many of which serve more to mythologize him than to describe him. The portrait Moshe Rosman provides is drawn from life instead of from myth. Based on innovative critical analysis of familiar and previously unexplored...

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