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Who Will Lead Us? - Samuel C. Heilman

Who Will Lead Us?

The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30840-4 (ISBN)
CHF 38,90 inkl. MwSt
Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are growing exponentially. With powerful attachments to the past, mysticism, community, tradition, and charismatic leadership, Hasidism seems the opposite of contemporary Western culture, yet it has thrived in the democratic countries and culture of the West. How? Who Will Lead Us? finds the answers to this question in the fascinating story of five contemporary Hasidic dynasties and their handling of the delicate issue of leadership and succession.
 
Revolving around the central figure of the rebbe, the book explores two dynasties with too few successors, two with too many successors, and one that believes their last rebbe continues to lead them even after his death. Samuel C. Heilman, recognized as a foremost expert on modern Jewish Orthodoxy, here provides outsiders with the essential guide to continuity in the Hasidic world.

Samuel C. Heilman is Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College CUNY. He has written eleven books, including, most recently (with Menachem Friedman), The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

List of Illustrations
Prologue

1 Succession in Contemporary Hasidism: Who Will Lead Us?
2 Munkács: An Oedipal Challenge
3 Boyan and Kopyczynitz: Running Out of Rebbes
4 Bobov: A Clash of Families
5 Satmar: Succession Charged with Conflict
6 ChaBaD Lubavitch: A Rebbe Who Never Dies

Final Thoughts
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 24 b-w photographs
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-520-30840-9 / 0520308409
ISBN-13 978-0-520-30840-4 / 9780520308404
Zustand Neuware
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