Hasidism – Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World

Ariel Evan Mayse is assistant professor at Stanford University and holds a rabbinic ordination from Beit Midrash Har’el in Israel. He is the author of From the Depth of the Well: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism and coauthor of A New Hasidism: Branches. Sam Berrin Shonkoff is assistant professor of Jewish studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is the editor of Martin Buber: His Intellectual and Scholarly Legacy.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. Emergence, Challenge, and Renewal (1736-1815)1. The Ba‘al Shem Tov: Disciples and Descendants2. Yiddish Supplications (Tkhines)3. Dov Ber of Mezritsh4. The Brody Proclamation of 17725. The Maggid’s Family6. Chernobil and Zhitomir7. Shmuel and Pinhas Horowitz, Levi Yitshak of Barditshev, and 'Uziel Meizels8. Hasidism in Lithuania, White Russia and Tiberias9. Nahman of Bratslav10. Beyond the Maggid’s Circle11. Early Hasidism in PolandII. Ascendancy and Dominance (1815-1881)12. Avraham Yehoshu‘a Heshel of Apt13. The Dynasties of Ruzhin and Talna14. Menahem Mendel Schneersohn15. Kalonymous Kalman Epstein of Krakow16. Hayim Halberstam and Sandz Hasidism17. Malka Rokeah of Belz and Eydel Rubin of Brody18. The Dynasties of Dinov, Zhidachov, and Komarno19. The Dynasties of Pshiskhe, Kotsk, Izhbits, Warka and GerIII. Decline, Renaissance, and Destruction (1881-1945)20. Ger in Warsaw: Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter21. Sokhachev and Ger22. Tsadok ha-Kohen of Lublin23. Munkatsh Hasidism24. Toledot Aharon25. Sholom Dov Ber Schneersohn26. The Hasidic Yeshivah27. Sarah Schenirer28. Three Hasidic Memoirs: Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Yitshak Nahum Twersky and Malka Shapiro29. The Belzer Rebbe’s Sermon and Holocaust Testimonies30. The Rebbe of PiasecznoIV. Renewal and Reconstruction (1945–present)31. Hasidic Theology and the Holocaust32. Zionist Hasidism33. Satmar Hasidism34. The Seventh Rebbe of Habad35. Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky36. Slonim Hasidism in Jerusalem37. Voices of Contemporary Hasidic WomenIndex

“The editors have done an extraordinary thing. Succinctly framed by recent scholarship, they have nevertheless allowed some of the most consequential thinkers in the history of Hasidism to speak for themselves. Their selection is impressive, the translations are always lucid and sometimes strikingly beautiful. Mayse and Shonkoff have demonstrated the sheer phenomenological range of this movement and, significantly, made more space for Hasidic women’s voices than any previous collection. This will be the indispensable volume for teaching and research at every level. It deserves all the praise I can heap on it.”