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Hasidism
on the Margin
Reconciliation, Antinomianism,
and Messianism in Izbica and Radzin Hasidism
Shaul Magid
Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical
Studies
Elliot Wolfson and Barbara Galli, Series Editors
An exploration of Hasidism's radical
stance on questions of faith, messianism, and antinomianism
Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical
traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of Izbica and Radzin
that Rabbi Gershon Henokh originated in nineteenth-century Poland.
Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of
Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of
Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present.
He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger
philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for
inquiry into other forms of Hasidism.
"A major contribution to the study
of Hasidism and Jewish thought." —Robert Eisen, George
Washington University
Shaul Magid is associate professor of Jewish philosophy
at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is editor of
God's Voice through the Void and coeditor of Beginning/Again:
Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts.
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First Paperback Edition
Fall 2004
LC: 2003007232 BM
464 pp. 6 x 9
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