Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe
This very interesting collection of essays opens the door wide to considering Eastern European Jewry and Judaism in a broad historical context. Dynner and the participants have made a solid contribution to our understanding. I learned much from reading it. --Arthur Green, rector in the Rabbinical School, Hebrew CollegeI cannot think of a recent collection that has so much novel and significant material in it. Some of these essays are first publications and very significant ones. Many of the contributors use newly available sources and ask fresh questions. --Shaul Stampfer, Rabbi Edward Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewry and chairman of the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of JerusalemHoly Dissent is a collection of technical but largely accessible essays by various scholars of Eastern European Judaism and Christianity who illustrate in great detail the complex, colorful, dark, and messy marketplace of Eastern Europe from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. . . This kind of study is more complex and in my mind more fruitful than comparative religion. --ShofarRich collection of essays. . . The picture that emerges is one of cross-cultural exchanges that flow in multiple directions and take place in a wide variety of forms and in a multitude of secular and spiritual arenas. The level of the essays is high, and some will become standouts in their fields. --The Russian Review