crisis & discontent in the history of Hasidism Assaf, David. creator Ordan, Dena. text bibliography Electronic books. History. mau Waltham, Mass Hanover Brandeis University Press University Press of New England ©2010 2010 monographic eng heb 1 online resource (xxiii, 336 pages) : illustrations. This fascinating volume reveals some of the dark, dramatic episodes concealed in the folds of the hasidic cloak--shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism. Using tools of detection, Assaf extracts historical truth from a variety of sources by examining how the same events are treated in different memory traditions, whether hasidic, maskilic, or modern historical, and tells the stories of individuals from the hasidic elites who found themselves unable to walk the trodden path. By placing these episodes and individuals under his historical lens, Assaf offers a more nuanced historical portrayal of Hasidism in the nineteenth-century context. Machine generated contents note: 1. "Lies My Teacher Told Me": Hasidic History as a Battlefield -- Orthodox Historiography's Strategies of Memory and Repression -- "I Too am not Objective": History as It Should Have Been -- 2. Apostate or Saint? In the Footsteps of Moshe, the Son of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyady -- "Would That my Parents Had Been Cruel": Straying Children of Zaddikim and Rabbis -- "And to Anger You I Will Convert": Parent-Child Relations and Conversion -- Polemic and Apologetic Memory -- "He Has Regained His Former Strength": Moshe Prior to His Conversion -- Leon Yulievich or Piotr Aleksandrovich? The Archival Testimony -- "He Had Done so in Sane, Sound Mind": Maskilic Memory Traditions -- "He was in His Right Mind": The Apostates' Testimony -- In the Historian's Workshop -- "The Time Has Come for Moshe's Story to be Revealed": Hasidic Memory Traditions -- "He First Lost His Mind and Then Left His Faith" -- ^ David Assaf ; translated from the Hebrew by Dena Ordan. Includes bibliographical references and index. Hasidism History RELIGION Judaism General Hasidism RELIGION / General BM198.3 .A8813 2010eb 296.8/33209 Assaf, David. Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, ©2010 (DLC) 2009053149 (OCoLC)464597254 9781611683059 161168305X 22573/ctv10092br JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=458635 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=458635 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=458635 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=458635 N$T 120604 20200709055536.0 ocn794670877 eng