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The chief source for Besht's biography is Baer (Dob) b. Samuel's Shibchei ha-Besht, Kopys, 1814, and frequently republished.
For Besht's methods of teaching, the following works are especially valuable: Jacob Joseph ha-Kohen, Toledot Ya'akob Yosef;
Likutim (Likut)... a collection of Hasidic doctrines; the works of Baer of Meseritz.
Critical works on the subject are: Dubnow, Yevreiskaya Istoria, ii. 426-431;
idem, in Voskhod, viii. Nos. 5-10;
ハインリヒ・グレーツ Grätz, Gesch. der Juden, 2d ed., xi. 94-98, 546-554;