Littman Studies in East European Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism

by David B. Goldstein, David I. Goldstein, Joseph Weiss

Joseph Weiss (1918-69) showed a single-minded commitment to identifying and describing the mystical element in hasidism and to unravelling the spiritual and historical meaning of the hasidic movement. The studies collected here are still quoted in every serious study of hasidism. Joseph Dan's Introduction, written specially for this paperback edition, examines Weiss's scholarship both in the context of subsequent scholarly research and in the light...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874774323
• ISBN13: 9781874774327
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"