TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meir,Jonatan
AU  - Meir,Jonatan
TI  - Literary Hasidism: the life and works of Michael Levi Rodkinson 
T2  - Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
SN  - 9780815653714
AV  - BM198.2 
U1  - 296.8/332 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Syracuse, New York
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Rodkinson, Michael Levi,
KW  - Hasidism
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - Hassidisme
KW  - Ouvrages de controverse
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Editors, Journalists, Publishers
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - General
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Polemics and perspectives -- The life and works of Michael Levi Rodkinson -- The beginnings of Hasidic hagiography -- Images of Hasidism : history, critique, and religious reform -- Rodkinson and neo-Hasidic literature
N2  - Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845-1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many transformations over the course of his life, most significantly from Hasidism to combative Haskalah to eventually anticipating the neo-Romantic trends of the early twentieth century. Throughout his career, Rodkinson's writing challenged the familiar genres of the literature of Hasidism and the Haskalah, shaping the religious realities of his readers and articulating a spiritual and community life among Jews, who took his ideas to heart in surprising ways. Today, Rodkinson is frequently referred to as a minor Hasidic author and publisher, a characterization based on the criticism of his opponents rather than on his writings. In Literary Hasidism, Meir draws upon those writings and their reception to present a completely different picture of this colorful and influential writer. Examining Rodkinson's lifelong role as a catalyzing agent of different cultural phenomena, his diverse publishing activities, and his writings in their respective stages, Meir grants readers a provocative new vantage point from which to consider this divisive, enigmatic figure
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