Second Thoughts: Unknown Yiddish Texts and New Perspectives on the Study of Hasidism

This study explores an important Hasidic manuscript rediscovered among the papers of Abraham Joshua Heschel at Duke University. The text, first noted by Heschel in the 1950s, is a collection of sermons by the famed tzaddik Judah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger (d. 1905). These homilies are significant becau...

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Published in:Zutot
Authors: Mayse, Ariel Evan (Author) ; Reiser, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Zutot
Year: 2017, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 88-98
Further subjects:B Hasidism Jewish mysticism Jewish studies orality manuscript studies Eastern European Jewish history
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