Author: BEN-AMOS, DAN, MINTZ, JEROME R.(eds.)
Title: In praise of the Baal Shem Tov [Shivhei ha-Besht]. The earliest collection of legends about the founder of Hasidism. Translated and edited.
Description: Northvale, New Jersey / London, Jason Aronson, 1993. XXX, 353 pp. Name on title. Halftitle removed. Remainder of black free endpaper in inner margin title. Else fine.Or. cloth with dustjacket. n Praise of the Baal Shem Tov is the first complete English translation of the tales surrounding the Besht, a rabbi and kabbalistic practitioner whose teachings bolstered the growing Hasidic movement in the eighteenth century. An important source on the life, philosophy, and mystical works of the Besht, In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov also reveals the daily life and concerns of eastern European Hasidic Jews in the late 1700s. Though portions of the book have been in print since its original publication in 1814, this edition avoids the common practice of reshaping Hasidic tales according contemporary expectations. ISBN: 9781568211473

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