Jewish Religious Life in Lithuania in the 18th-20th Centuries /
This volume attempts to address the complicated issue of distinctive characteristics of Jewish religious life in Lithuania. Its authors and editors deal with the range of religious expressions, with the religious life of different sectors of the Jewish community of Lithuania and with the dynamics of...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
Series:
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Jewish History and Culture ;
82.
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Call Number: BM70
- Note on Transcription and Place Names
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Lithuanian Jews and Their Religious Life: Introduction
- 1 "A True Servant of the Divine": the Devotional World of Rabbi Alexander Zisskind of Grodno
- Ariel Evan Mayse
- 2 The Gaon and the Hasid: The Image of the Vilna Gaon in Hasidic Memory
- Uriel Gellman
- 3 The Earliest Maskilic Treatise on Hasidism: a View from Vilna
- Marcin Wodziński
- 4 The Doctrine of Tsimtsum in Hasidic and Mitnagdic Schools of Lithuania and Its Contemporary Social Implications
- Daniel Reiser
- 5 Rabbi Israel Salanter and Cholera: Anatomy of the Legend
- Alexander Lvov (transl. by Julia Korostenskienė)
- 6 Toward a Modern Conception of Orthodox Womanhood: the Case of Lithuanian Bet Jakob
- Tzipora Weinberg
- 7 The Status of the Rabbinical Association in Lithuania
- Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky
- 8 Lithuanian Musar Thought: Afflictions of Love ( Yesurim shel ahavah )
- Gershon Greenberg
- 9 Together and Apart: Social Aspects of Lithuanian Synagogues
- Vladimir Levin
- 10 Chaim Grade's Quarrels with Musar
- Yehudah DovBer Zirkind
- 11 Religious Jewish Life and Secular Jewish Life in Lithuania-a Complex Reality
- Shaul Stampher
- Bibliography
- Index.