Habad in the twentieth century
Subtitle: spirituality, politics, outreach
By: edited by Jonatan Meir, Gadi Sagiv
Contributors: Merkaz Zalman Shazar le-haʻamaḳat ha-todaʻah ha-hisṭorit ha-Yehudit
Publisher: Zalman Shazar Center for the Study of the History of the Jewish People
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9789652273505
Subjects: Teachings; Views on Zionism; Habad; History; Hasidism; Chabad
Description: This anthology consists of four scholarly articles on Lubavitch in the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Efraim Halevy; title: Foreword  -- Gadi Sagiv and Jonatan Meir; title: "The thickening of the light": the Kabbalistic-Hasidic teachings of Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn in their social context  -- Naftali Loewenthal; title: Achronic time, messianic expectation, and the secret of the leap in Habad  -- Elliot R. Wolfson; title: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's outlook on the Land of Israel, Zionism, and the State of Israel  -- Alon Dahan; title: Lubavitch and how and why it is taking over the world -- Samuel Heilman.