Becoming a Movement: Early Nineteenth-Century Hasidism in the Eyes of R. Kalonymus Kalman Epstein of Kraków.

The article explores the transformation of Hasidism from a marginal, elitist group into a modern socio-religious mass movement in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century from the perspective of rabbi R. Kalonymus Kalman Epstein. It provides a background of the life of R. Kalman which covers his exp...

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Published in:	Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas & Experience Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 307 - 328
Main Author:	Gellman, Uriel
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Oct2018
Subjects:	Hasidism Epstein, Kalonymus Kalman Jewish sects Judaism Rabbis History Poland
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