Hasidic Prayer (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) - Hardcover

Jacobs, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0710073623 ISBN 13: 9780710073624

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1972

Synopsis

. with clipped dw, small tear to dw on spine, 1972, 195pp

About this title

Review

His work is remarkably well done, with profound scholarship but presented in a readable and absorbing manner. --Times Educational Supplement

It now presents itself to a new public which will find this one of the basic books required for those who want to go directly into the nature of Hasidic prayer . . . in this sound and clearly written text there is a scholarly survey of the most immediate developments of Hasidism, which enters into that world both as a scholar looking in from the outside, and as a rabbi aware of the yearnings of faith. The new introduction is valuable in pointing to the most recent scholarship which also emphasizes women in Hasidic life . . . this is a valuable book which is a pleasure to read. --European Judaism

About the Author

Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, was a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He was the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999), Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), and A Tree of Life (second edition 2000), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein s Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710073623
• ISBN 13: 9780710073624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205