The Age of Messianic Reproduction: The Image of the Last Lubavitcher Rebbe in Chabad Theology

The smiling face of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known fondly as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, is a well-known sight to even secular Jews. Staring out of billboards, key-chains, and newspapers, Schneerson, despite his death in 1994, appears everywhere. The Rebbe’s portrait is a devotional image for many mem...

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Main Author: Dine, Ranana (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2017]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 85, Issue: 3, Pages: 775-805
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Schneerson, Menachem Mendel 1902-1994 / Charismatic / Image / Spread of / Chabad Lubavitch / Khabad / Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
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