Jewish Religious Life in Lithuania in the 18th-20th Centuries

Marcin Wodziński is a professor of Jewish history and literature at the Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław. His research focuses on the social and religious history of East European Jews in modern times, especially the Haskalah and Hasidism.Shaul Stampfer, PhD, Hebrew University. He has written on various themes, including the rise of Lithuanian yeshiva, the historicity of the story of the Khazar conversion to Judaism, the demography of Eastern European Jewry, and more.Lara Lempertienė, PhD, Vilnius University, is Head of the Judaica Research Center at the National Library of Lithuania. She has edited and co-edited several scholarly monographs and collections and published articles on the cultural history of European Jewry.

• Note on Transcription and Place NamesList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsLithuanian Jews and Their Religious Life: Introduction1 “A True Servant of the Divine”: the Devotional World of Rabbi Alexander Zisskind of GrodnoAriel Evan Mayse2 The Gaon and the Hasid: The Image of the Vilna Gaon in Hasidic MemoryUriel Gellman3 The Earliest Maskilic Treatise on Hasidism: a View from VilnaMarcin Wodziński4 The Doctrine of Tsimtsum in Hasidic and Mitnagdic Schools of Lithuania and Its Contemporary Social ImplicationsDaniel Reiser5 Rabbi Israel Salanter and Cholera: Anatomy of the LegendAlexander Lvov (transl. by Julia Korostenskienė)6 Toward a Modern Conception of Orthodox Womanhood: the Case of Lithuanian Bet JakobTzipora Weinberg7 The Status of the Rabbinical Association in LithuaniaBen-Tsiyon Klibansky8 Lithuanian Musar Thought: Afflictions of Love (Yesurim shel ahavah)Gershon Greenberg9 Together and Apart: Social Aspects of Lithuanian SynagoguesVladimir Levin10 Chaim Grade’s Quarrels with MusarYehudah DovBer Zirkind11 Religious Jewish Life and Secular Jewish Life in Lithuania—a Complex RealityShaul StampherBibliographyIndex