The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World by Nathaniel Deutsch

The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World

Nathaniel Deutsch

310 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

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Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe-or charismatic lea...

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