In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov (Shivhei Ha-Besht): The Earliest Collection of Legends about the Founder of Hasidism

by Dan Ben-Amos and Jerome R. Mintz

Book Overview

In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov is the first complete English translation of the tales surrounding the Besht, a rabbi and kabbalistic practitioner whose teachings bolstered the growing Hasidic movement... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253140501
• ISBN13: 9780253140500
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.