Immanuel Etkes: 2 books
The Besht
Magician, Mystic, and Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Founded in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement and its religious thinking have dramatically transformed modern Judaism. The figure of the Ba’al Shem Tov (known in acronym form as the BeSHT)—the purported founder of the Hasidic movement—has fascinated scholars, Jewish...
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady
The Origins of Chabad Hasidism
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745–1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus played, and continues to play, an important part in...