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Polish Jewish History Reflected and Refracted The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Moshe Rosman’s revolutionary approach has become a cornerstone of Polish Jewish historiography. Challenging conventions, he asserts that the ‘marriage of convenience’ between...
Authors: David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodziński Afterword: Arthur Green This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism....
This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer―known as the Ba’al Shem Tov, or the Besht―the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism....
