The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader by Immanuel Etkes

The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

Immanuel Etkes

350 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history religion challenging reflective medium-paced
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Founded in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, the Hasidic movement and its religious thinking have dramatically transformed modern Judaism. The figure of the Ba'al Shem Tov (known in acronym form as the BeSHT)--the purported founder of the ...

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