Tales of the Hasidim
By: by Martin Buber ; with a new foreword by Chaim Potok.
Publisher: Schocken Books; Distributed  by Pantheon Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Hasidim -- Legends.; Hasidic parables.
Description: "This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber's classic work Tales of the Hasidim, with a new foreword by Chaim Potok. Martin Buber devoted forty years of his life to collecting and retelling the legends of Hasidism. These marvelous tales--terse, vigorous, often cryptic--are the true texts of Hasidism. The hasidic masters, of whom these tales are told, are full-bodied personalities, yet their lives seem almost symbolic. Through them is expressed the intensity and holy joy whereby God becomes visible in everything." -- Back Cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Die Erzählungen der Chassidim.
"Originally published in two separate volumes, Tales of the Hasidim: the early masters and Tales of the Hasidim: the later masters by Schocken Books Inc. in 1947."