Imagining Holiness

Justin Jaron Lewis is a storyteller, teacher of Jewish lore, and assistant professor of religion, University of Manitoba.

"Until now, no English language author has explored the literary sources for Buber's collections and asked broader questions about how the 'original' Hasidic collections were produced, by whom, and for what purpose. Lewis has does precisely this in this groundbreaking book. Imagining Holiness is the most important work on the topic yet produced in the English language." Nathaniel Deutsch, University of California, Santa Cruz