Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Names
- Introduction
- 1 The Hasidic Tale as Perceived by Hasidim
- 2 The Tsadik, his Followers, and his Opponents
- 3 Matchmaking and Marriages
- 4 The Blessing of Children: Birth and Offspring
- 5 Agunot
- 6 A Life of Sin
- 7 Illness and Physicians
- 8 The Dead, Burial, and the World to Come
- 9 Transmigration of the Soul and Dybbuks
- 10 The Powers of Evil and the War against Them
- 11 Apostasy and Apostates
- 12 Ritual Slaughterers
- 13 The Tamim: The Simple Person
- 14 Hidden Tsadikim
- 15 Hospitality
- 16 The Prophet Elijah
- 17 The Ba'al Shem Tov's Unsuccessful Pilgrimage to the Land of Israel
- Appendix: Supplementary Notes
- Glossary
- Gazetteer of Place Names in Central and Eastern Europe
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Names
- Introduction
- 1 The Hasidic Tale as Perceived by Hasidim
- 2 The Tsadik, his Followers, and his Opponents
- 3 Matchmaking and Marriages
- 4 The Blessing of Children: Birth and Offspring
- 5 Agunot
- 6 A Life of Sin
- 7 Illness and Physicians
- 8 The Dead, Burial, and the World to Come
- 9 Transmigration of the Soul and Dybbuks
- 10 The Powers of Evil and the War against Them
- 11 Apostasy and Apostates
- 12 Ritual Slaughterers
- 13 The Tamim: The Simple Person
- 14 Hidden Tsadikim
- 15 Hospitality
- 16 The Prophet Elijah
- 17 The Ba'al Shem Tov's Unsuccessful Pilgrimage to the Land of Israel
- Appendix: Supplementary Notes
- Glossary
- Gazetteer of Place Names in Central and Eastern Europe
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Hasidic Tale , pp. 343 - 360Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2008