The origin and meaning of Hasidism.
By: Edited and translated by Maurice Friedman.
Publisher: Horizon Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Hasidism -- History.
Description: Here the author completes his great lifework of the re-creation and interpretation of Hasidism, the popular communal mysticism that arose and flourished among the Jews of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows that the God of the Bible and of Hasidism is the loving God whose love includes the demand that man make real his humanity through bringing every aspect of his life into his relation to God.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"The second volume of Martin Buber's two-volume comprehensive interpretation, Hasidism and the way of man."