Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov by Moshe Rosman

Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov

Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Moshe Rosman

316 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging reflective medium-paced
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This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer—known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht—the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the proge...

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