The Faith of Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture

by Allan Nadler

Book Overview

The Faith of the Mithnagdim is the first study of the theological roots of the Mithnagdic objection to Hasidism. Allan Nadler's pioneering effort fills the void in scholarship on Mithnagdic thought and corrects the impression that there were no compelling theological alternatives to Hasidism during the period of its rapid spread across Eastern Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century. In Nadler's account, Mithnagdism emerges as a highly developed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801861829
• ISBN13: 9780801861826
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"