Title Hasidism, suffering, and renewal : the prewar and Holocaust legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira / edited by Don Seeman, Daniel Reiser, and Ariel Evan Mayse

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 375 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought. Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Is Hasidism, and Who Is R. Shapira? -- Renewal, Vitality, and the Human Subject -- Rupture, Efficacy, and the End of Meaning? -- Hasidism, Neo-Hasidism, Hasidic Modernism -- Notes -- Part I: Hasidism and Renewal -- 1 The Place of Piety: Piaseczno in the Landscape of Polish Hasidism -- Hasidism in Piaseczno -- Tsaddikim in and of Piaseczno -- Piaseczno in Warsaw -- Piaseczno in Hasidism -- Small Is Beautiful -- Limitations -- Toward Counter-Reformation -- Conclusions -- Notes 2 The Rebbe of Piaseczno: Between Two Trends in Hasidism -- Between Ecstasy/Prophecy and Magic -- Spiritual Techniques and Prophecy -- On Hasidism before and after Shapira: Some Observations -- Notes -- 3 The Devotional Talmud: Study as a Sacred Quest -- Renewing the Talmud -- Sacred Study -- Sacred Knowing -- Sacred Self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Mystical Fraternities: Jerusalem, Tiberius, and Warsaw: A Comparative Study of Goals, Structures, and Methods -- Introduction -- The Goals of Benei Mahshavah Tovah -- The Society: Structure and Activities -- Pre-Hasidic Mystical Fraternities Hasidic Mystical Fraternities in Eighteenth-Century Tiberius -- Hillel Zeitlin and his Mystical Fraternities -- Postscript and Conclusions -- Notes -- 5 Self-Creation through Texts: Kalonymus Kalman Shapira's Incarnational Theology -- Holy Stones, Divine Bodies -- Irreducible Letters, Irreducible Bodies -- Engraving the Self -- Self-Creation through Writing -- The Ingathering of Alterity -- Alterity and the Body -- Self-Creation and the Divine Creator -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Hasidism in Dialogue with Modernity: Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira's Derekh ha-Melekh -- The Historical Backdrop Facets of the Self -- Developing a Language of Mindfulness -- Real Presence -- Readers and Authors, Bones and Books -- Notes -- Part II: Text, Theodicy, and Suffering -- 7 A New Reading of the Rebbe of Piaseczno's Holocaust-Era Sermons: A Review of Daniel Reiser's Critical Edition -- Notes -- 8 Creative Writing in the Shadow of Death: Psychological and Phenomenological Aspects of Rabbi Shapira's Manuscript "Sermons from the Years of Rage" -- Sermons from the Years of Rage -- A Philology of Suffering -- A Psychology of Suffering: Writing in the Shadow of Death -- A Phenomenology of Suffering Notes -- 9 Miriam, Moses, and the Divinity of Children: Human Individuation at the Cusp of Persistence and Perishability -- Introduction and Section One -- Section Two: Eternity Realized through Children -- Section Three: Time and Individuation -- Section Four: Schoolchildren as the Face of the Shekhinah -- Section Five: The Omnipresence of God, the Preciousness of Individuals, the Suffering of Children -- Section Six: Miriam as Model for Bold Religious Initiative -- Moses as Model of Leadership through Imperfection -- Summary and Discussion -- Coda: Miriam Shows the Way of Leadership to Moses Summary "Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 24, 2021) Subject Ḳalonimus Ḳalmish ben Elimelekh, 1889-1943 -- Influence SUBJECT Ḳalonimus Ḳalmish ben Elimelekh, 1889-1943 fast Subject Rabbis -- Poland -- Piaseczno (Piaseczno) -- Biography Hasidim -- Poland -- Piaseczno (Piaseczno) -- Biography Hasidism -- Influence Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Sources Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. RELIGION / Judaism / History. Hasidim Hasidism -- Influence Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Rabbis Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Judaism SUBJECT Piaseczno (Piaseczno, Poland) -- Religious life and customs Subject Poland Poland -- Piaseczno (Piaseczno) Genre/Form Biographies Sources Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Seeman, Don, 1968- editor. Reiser, Daniel, 1976- editor. Mayse, Ariel Evan, editor. LC no. 2020056932 ISBN 9781438484020 143848402X

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