Hasidism: A New History

6 sessions, Mondays October 29; November 12, 19, 26; December 3, 10 Tuition: $325 YIVO members: $250** Students: $30 (Must register with valid university email address) Registration is closed. Sign up for YIVO's email list to receive announcements of upcoming classes. For inquiries about this course, contact: Ben Kaplan Director of Education (212) 294-6153

Instructor: Professor David Biale, UC Davis

This course will present to students the latest research findings on the history of Hasidism, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The course will involve reading of primary sources but will also be based on the newly published Hasidism: A New History. Topics to be covered will include:

1) Was the Baal Shem Tov the founder of Hasidism?
2) The Maggid of Mezeritsh: the Real Founder?
3) Bratslav Hasidism: A Deviation or True Belief?
4) Chabad and the Dynastic Principle
5) Nineteenth-Century Golden Age
6) Resurrection: Hasidism in the Post-Holocaust World

David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. He is YIVO’s Fall 2018 Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish History.

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