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B. Academic and Public Boards
2009-2013 The Executive Committee of the World Union of Jewish Studies
2004-2007 The
Executive Committee of the Historical Society of
Since 2001 The
Council of the World
The Executive Committee of Beth Shalom Aleichem
Since 1995 The
Board of the Historical Society of
1979-1994 General
Secretary of the World Union of Jewish Studies and a secretary of the World
Congress of Jewish Studies (the Eighth Congress [1981]; the Ninth Congress
[1985]; the Tenth Congress [1989]; the Eleventh Congress [1993])
C. Academic Editorial Boards
Since 2008 The Editorial board of Contemporary Jewry
Since 2004 Associate editor of Gal-Ed: Annual for the History and Culture of Polish Jewry
Since 2002
Publications Committee, The
Editor of the section 'Hasidism' in Jews in
Since 2001 The Editorial Board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
The Advisory Board of Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia: Studies in Jewish History, Culture and Religion ( Kraków, Poland)
1998-2003 Editor of the series Mivhar: Studies and Sources in the History and Culture of East European Jewry
1993-2003 The
Editorial Board of Gal-ed: On the History of the Jews in
1990-1995 Editor of the annual Jewish Studies
Scientific
Publications
A. Books and Monographs
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1. Derekh ha-Malkhut: Rabbi Israel
me-Ruzhin u-Mekomo be-Toldot Ha-Hasidut Jerusalem, The Zalman Shazar
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Update No. 1 (July 2006) Titles Index to Update No. 1 Names Index to Update No. 1 |
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Regal Way - The Life
and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin |
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6. Na ve-Nad: Zikhronotav shel Yekhezkel Kotik
[A Vagabond: The Memoirs of Yechezkel Kotik], Volume II, Edited and
Translated into Hebrew from the Yiddish with an Introduction by |
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7. Caught
in the Thicket: Chapters of Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism,
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8. Untold Tales of the Hasidim:
Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism, Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: “Lies My Teacher Told Me”:
Hasidic History as a Battlefield |
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9. Itzik
Manger, Songs of the Megillah (Megile-lider), A New
Hebrew-Yiddish Edition Translated and Annotated by Table of Contents and Introduction Haman Telephones Vaizatha at the Newspaper
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10. Beguiled by
Knowledge: Anatomy of a Hasidic Controversy, Tel Aviv: University of
Haifa Press, Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books, 2012, 550 pp. (In
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B. Text Books
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1. The World of Torah In Poland , Tel Aviv,
The Open University of Israel, 1990, 110 pp.; Unit 5-6 in the course: Polin
- The Jews of Eastern Europe: History and Culture. Russian
Translation: Tel Aviv, The Open University of |
C. Articles
1. "‘Let's Thank the Crooks’: On
the Shaping of Charity Stories in the World of the Sages," in: Iturim:
Studies in Honor of Moshe Krone, Torah Education Department of the World
Zionist Organization: Jerusalem
2. "From Volhynia to Safed: Rabbi Abraham Dov
of Ovruch as a Hasidic Leader in the First Half of the Nineteenth
Century," Shalem - Studies in the History of the Jews in Eretz Israel
3. "The Expansion of Hasidism:
The Case of Rabbi Nehemia Yehiel of Bychawa," in: I. Bartal, E.
Mendelsohn and C. Turniansky (eds.), Studies in Jewish Culture in Honour of
Chone Shmeruk, The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem,
1993, pp. 269-298 (Heb.).
4. "The Metamorphosis of Zanav (Tail)
from Hasidic Courts to Israeli Slang," Leshonenu La’am, 44, 2
(1993), pp. 73-79 (Heb.; with Israel
5. "Yesod Ha-Ma'ala: A New Chapter in
the Historiography of Hasidism in Eretz Israel,";
Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel
6. "Intercession and
Orthodoxy: The Zaddikim of Poland Encounter the Modern Times," in: I.
Bartal, R. Elior and C. Shmeruk (eds.), Hasidism in Poland, The Bialik
Institute, Jerusalem, 1994, pp. 65-90 (Heb.; with Israel Bartal ).
7. "Hasidism in Poland in the
Nineteenth Century: The State of Research and Bibliographic Survey,"
in: I. Bartal, R. Elior and C. Shmeruk (eds.), Hasidism in Poland, The
Bialik Institute, Jerusalem, 1994, pp. 357-379 (Heb.).
8. "‘The Causeless Hatred is
Ongoing’: The Struggle against Bratslav Hasidism in the 1860s," Zion
- A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History, 59 (1994), pp. 465-506
(Heb.).
9. "The Historical
Background of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin's Settlement in Sadagura," Studia
Judaica, 3, Cluj-Napoca
10. "Nineteenth Century Hebrew Terms for Realia in the Literature of New
Immigrants: a. Mangal," Leshonenu
La'am, 46, 2 (1995), pp. 75-83; "…
b. The Sephardic Pronunciation," ibid., 46, 3 (1995), pp.
106-111 (Heb.).
11. "‘The Holy Community of
Sadagora Herald’: An Unknown Anti-Hasidic Satire," Qesher, 17,
(1995), pp. 117-124 (Heb.).
12. "‘Polish Hasidism’ or
‘Hasidism in Poland’: On the Problem of Hasidic Geography," GAL-ED
- On the History of the Jews in Poland
13. "The Lithuanian Yeshiva (Review
of the book by S. Stampfer)," Zion: A Quarterly for Research in
Jewish History, 60 (1995), pp. 480-486 (Heb.).
14. "‘The Rumor was Spread that the
Messiah has Already Come’: New Light on the Aliyah of Hasidim in the Year
1777," Zion, 61 (1996), pp. 319-346 (Heb.).
14a. Rejoinder: ‘Light in the
Darkness,’ Zion
15. "‘My Small and Ugly World’: The
Confession of Rabbi Yitzhak Nahum
Twersky of Shpykiv," Alpayim - A Multidisciplinary
Publication for Contemporary Thought and Literature, 14 (1997), pp. 49-79
(Heb.)
16. ‘A Panic Marriage
in Eastern Europe : A Chapter from Yechezkel
Kotik's Memoirs,’Et ha-Da'at, 2 (1998), pp. 63-74 (Heb.).
17. "‘Money
for Household Expenses’: Economic Aspects of the Hasidic Courts," in: Scripta
Hierosolymitana, Vol.38: A.Teller (ed.), Studies in the History of the
Jews in Old Poland in Honor of Jacob Goldberg , The Magnes Press, Jerusalem
1998, pp. 14-50.
18. "‘A World of Fire’: Aaron Ze'ev Aescoly and his 'Hasidism in
Poland'," Introduction to a New Edition of A.Z. Aescoly, Hasidism in Poland, The Center for the Research on
the History and Culture of Polish Jews, The Hebrew University, The Magnes
Press, Jerusalem, 1998, pp. 9-22 (Heb.). Second revised edition: Jerusalem
2000.
19. "‘My Beloved friend, The Magid
of Dubno’: Letters of Ridicule in the Style of the 'Revealer of Secrets'
Exchanged between Shalom Aleichem and Simon Dubnov," Chulyot -
Journal of Yiddish Research, 5 (1999), pp 61-107 (Heb.).
20. "‘Who Believes Not in the Great Leaders of the Time’: The Hasidic
Struggle over the Honor of the Book Or ha-Hayyim and Its Historical
Significance," in: D. Assaf, J. Dan and I. Etkes (eds.), Studies in
Hasidism - Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, 15, Jerusalem 1999, pp. 125-149
(Heb.).
21. "One Event, Two Interpretations: The Fall of the Seer of Lublin in
Hasidic Memory and Maskilic Satire," in: I. Etkes et al. (eds.), Within
Hasidic Circles: Studies in Hasidism in Memory of Mordecai Wilensky, The
Bialik Institute, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 161-208 (Heb.).
22. "The Library of Gershom Scholem
on Jewish Mysticism (Review of the catalogue edited by J. Dan and E.
Liebes)," Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History, 65
(2000), pp. 249-254 (Heb.).
23. "Leadership and Inheritance of Leadership in Nineteenth Century
Hasidism," in: Hana Amit (ed.), On Leadership and Leaders, Ministry
of Defence, Tel Aviv, 2000, pp. 59-72 (in Heb.).
24. "Apostate or Saint? In the
Footsteps of Moshe, the Son of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyady," Zion
25. "Der königliche Hof und seine
Mitglieder: Ein kleiner Staat im Staate," in: Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz
(ed.), Zwischen Ost und West: Galizische Juden und Wien, Jüdisches
Museum Wien, Vienna
26. "Upadek Widzącego z Lublina: Jedno wydarzenie, dwie
interpretacje," Duchowość Żydowska w Polsce,
Kraków, 2000, pp. 123-140.
27. "Un
petit État dans un grand État: la cour ‘royale’ hassidique au XIXe
sičcle," Les cahiers du judaďsme, 8 (2000), pp. 37-53.
28. "Historical and Social Aspects
in the Study of Hasidism," in: D. Assaf (ed.), Zaddik
and Devotees: Historical and Social Aspects of Hasidism, The
Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem
29. "The World of Torah in Poland during 16th-17th Centuries," in: I.
Bartal and I. Gutman, The Broken Chain: Polish Jewry through the Age,
II, The Zalman Shazar
Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem
30. "Hayyim Chemerinsky and His My
Town Motele," Introduction to a New Edition of Chemerinsky book My Town Motele, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem
31. "From Enemy to Friend: Rabbi
Akiva Shalom Chayeth's Path from Mithnaged to Hasid," in: D. Assaf et al.
(eds.), From Vilna to Jerusalem: Shmuel Werses Jubilee
Volume, The Hebrew
University Magnes Press, Jerusalem
32. "One Event, Two
Interpretations: The Fall of the Seer of Lublin in Hasidic Memory and Maskilic
Satire," Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 15 (2002), pp.
187-202.
33.
"Hasidism and Philosophy: The World of Rabbi Menachem
34. "Chone Shmeruk‘s The Call for a Prophet and Shtetls and Cities"<Review Essay>, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 17 (2004), pp. 413-419.
35. "A
Dreamer with Eyes Open: The Shtetl in the Memoirs of Pinchas Govrin,"
Introduction to his book We Were as Dreamers: A Family Saga,
36. "Enemies – Love Story? Research of the Interrelationship between Hasidism and Haskalah," in: I. Bartal and S. Feiner (eds.), The Varieties of Haskalah, The Hebrew University Magnes Press (2005), pp. 183-200 (Heb.).
37. "A Messianic Vision among Hasidim in
Volhynia," GAL-ED: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry,
20 (2006), pp. 39-54 (Heb.).
38. "The
Teachings of Dov Ber the Maggid of Mezritch in Solomon Maimon’s Autobiography,"
39. "‘My
Tiny, Ugly World:’ The Confession of Rabbi Yitzhak Nahum Twersky of
Shpikov," Contemporary Jewry, 26 (2006), pp. 1-34.
40. "Chasydyzm:
zarys historii", MIchał Galas
(ed.), Światło i słońce: Studia z dziejów chasydzmu,
Kraków 2006, pp. 11-38.
41.
‘Le buone notizie: una visione
messianica tra gli chassidim di Volinia’, Geri
Cerchiai and Giovanni Rota (eds.), Ebraismo e cultura occidentale agli inizi
del XX secolo, Milano 2008,
pp. 27-43.
42.
’Vagues de violence contre les hassidim de Bratslav’, Les cahiers du judaďsme,
24 (2008), pp. 28-37.
12 signed bibliographical appendices (Heb).
44.
‘ “A Heretic Who has No Faith in the Great Ones of the Age”:
The Clash Over the Honor of Or Ha-Hayyim’, Modern Judaism,
29, 2 (May 2009), pp. 194-225.
45.
‘Immanuel
Etkes: Bibliography,’
46.
‘ “A
Girl! He Ought to be Whipped”: The Hasid as Homo
Ludens,’
47.
‘ “Small and
Cozy”? The Song Oyfn pripetshik and the Transformation of the Image of
the Heder,’
48.
‘The Bernyu of Leova Affair
and the Tsanz-Sadigura Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography’, Rachel
Elior (ed.), ‘New Old Things’: Myths, Mysticism and Controversies,
Philosophy and Halacha, Faith and Ritual in Jewish Thought through the Ages,
II (Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, 23 (2011), pp. 407-481 (Heb.).
49.
Давид Асаф и
Гади Сагив, ‘Хасидизм
в царской
России:
исторические
и социальные
аспекты’, И.
Барталь, И.
Лурье (ред.), История
еврейского
народа в
России. Т.2: От разделов
Польши до падения
Российской
империи, 1772-1917,
Москва:
Иерусалим, 2012. С.
101-146.
50.
David Assaf and Gadi Sagiv, “Hasidism
in Czarist Russia: Historical and Social Aspects,” Ilia Lurie (ed.), History
of the Jews in Russia, II: From the Partitions of Poland to the Fall of the Russian Empire, 1772-1917, Jerusalem: The
Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2012, pp. 75-112 (Heb.).
51.
‘Mordechai Nadav (1920-2011),’
GAL-ED: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry, 23 (2012), pp.
205-209 (Heb.).
52.
‘Mendel Piekarz (1922-2011):
Bibliography,’ GAL-ED: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry,
23 (2012), pp. 225-234 (Heb.).
53.
‘Isaac
Baer Levinsohn (RIBAL) Meets Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt: A Study in Polemic
Memory Traditions,’ Israel Bartal et. al. (eds.), Studies
in Ashkenazi Culture, Women’s History, and the Languages of the Jews Presented
to Chava Turniansky, Jerusalem:
Zalman Shazar Center, 2013, pp. 247-269 (Heb.).
54.
David Assaf and Gadi Sagiv, ‘Hasidism
in Tsarist Russia: Historical and Social Aspects’, Jewish History,
27 (2013), pp. 241-269.
55.
‘On the “Nonsense” of Berish
Kohn,’ And
the Wind Uproots All… Berish Kohn's Letter to His Sister Esther, January 1922,
published by Ibby Mekhmandarov, Yehud 2013, pp. 14-16 (Heb.).
56.
‘The Rebbe Who Came to the Mountain:
History and Fiction in Haim Be'er's El Makom she-ha-ruakh holekh [Back from
Heavenly Lack],’ Hanna Soker-Schwager and Haim Weiss (eds.), Festschrift
in Honor of Haim Be'er, Tel Aviv: Am Oved 2014, pp. 304-323 (Heb.).
57.
‘On the Ada Rapoport-Albert’s
Scholarly Work,’ Ada Rapoport-Albert, Studies in Hasidism, Sabbatianism,
and Gender, Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2014,
pp. 7-21 (with Immanuel Etkes).
D.
Encyclopedias Entries
1. ‘Belz
Hasidic Dynasty’, The YIVO Encyclopedia
of Jews in Eastern Europe,
2. "Hasidism: Historical
Overview," The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe,
3. ‘Informers’, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe,
4. ‘Kotik,
Yekhezkl’, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews
in Eastern Europe,
5. ‘Ruzhin
Hasidic Dynasty’, The YIVO Encyclopedia
of Jews in Eastern Europe,
6. ‘Sandz
Hasidic Dynasty’, The YIVO Encyclopedia
of Jews in Eastern Europe,
7. ‘Shapira
Family’, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews
in Eastern Europe,
8. ‘Yisra’el
of Ruzhin’, The YIVO Encyclopedia of
Jews in Eastern Europe,
E. EDITING
1. Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies:
a) Proceedings of the Sixth World
Congress of Jewish Studies, Vol. IV,
b) Proceedings of the Seventh
World Congress of Jewish Studies, Vols. II-IV,
c) Proceedings of the Eighth
World Congress of Jewish Studies, Vols. I-IV,
d) Proceedings of the Ninth World
Congress of Jewish Studies, 7 Vols.,
e) Proceedings of the Tenth
World Congress of Jewish Studies, 7 Vols.,
f) Proceedings of the
Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, 9 Vols.,
2. Newsletter of the World
3. Jewish Studies: Forum of the World
4. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach: A Bio-Bibliography, Supplement to Jewish Studies, Vol. 1 (1993).
5. D. Assaf, I. Bartal and I. Etkes (eds.),
Polin: The Jews of
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"‘A World of Fire’: Aaron Ze'ev Aescoly and his 'Hasidism in
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7. D. Assaf, J. Dan and I. Etkes (eds.), Studies
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D. Assaf (ed.), Zaddik
and Devotees: Historical and Social Aspects of Hasidism, The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History,
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Hayyim Chemerinsky, My
Town Motele, (new edition, including introduction), The Center for
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David Engel (editor), |
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Popular Publications
1. ‘In
Memory of Three Scholars of the Hasidic Movement’,
Jewish Studies, 31 (1991), pp. 109-111 (Hebrew)
In memory of Haim Liberman,
Wolf Zeev Rabinowitch and Zvi Meir Rabinovitz
2. ‘Is
it Permitted to Change a Tombstone’s
Text?’,
Ha’aretz,
18 October 1992 (Hebrew)
On Arie Aharoni’s translation of Shalom Aleichem’s Funem yarid (From the Fair)
3. ‘The Rebbe Was Framed’, The Jerusalem Report,
17 December 1992, pp. 46-47
On Yehoshua Mondshine’s Kerem Habad,
vol. 4
4. ‘Robbers
of Memory’, Ha’aretz, 17 February
1995 (Hebrew)
On the Ultra-Orthodox claims against
nudity in photographs in Yad va-Shem
5. ‘“The Laws of Forbidden
Intercourse” and
more’, Ha’aretz, 10 March 1995
(Hebrew)
On
problems in the Hebrew translation of David Biale’s
Eros and the Jews
6. ‘Who
is a Jewish Knesset Member’,
Ha’aretz,
18 August 1995 (Hebrew)
On
racism in the Knesset
7. ‘Betrayal of Our Beliefs’, Ha’aretz, 10 November 1995 (Hebrew)
On the crisis within
religious Zionism
8. ‘Shabbes,
At Least in Our Neighborhood’,
Ha’aretz,
1 November 1996 (Hebrew)
On
the public debate over the Sabbath closing of
9. ‘To whom does the Gaon of Vilna Belong’, Ha’aretz, 15 October 1997
(Hebrew)
Is it justified to use
the Gaon as an icon of the Lithuanian Jewry?
10. ‘The
Notebook is Open’, Ha’aretz Sfarim, 10
December 1997 (Hebrew)
On Mordechai Nadav’s Pinkas Kahal Tiktin (The Minutes Book of the
Jewish Community Council of Tykocin)
11. ‘Be Careful! History’, Ha’aretz,
23 January 1998 (Hebrew)
Response to Mendel Piekarz’s criticism of The Regal Way
12. ‘An
Encounter with Counter History’,
Ha'aretz (English Edition), 25 June 1999
On Nahum Karlinky’s Counter History: The Hasidic Epistles from Eretz
13. 'Why
David Levi's Hand didn't Shake?', Ha'ayin
ha-shevi'it (The Seventh Eye Journal), September 1999 (Hebrew)
14. ‘Ever since Moses, there has not been another
one like Moses’, Ha'aretz
(English Edition), 31 December 1999
What
is the most important Jewish book of the second millennium
15. ‘Farewell
to the Prophet’, Ha'aretz
Sfarim, 4 October 2000 (Hebrew)
On Chone Shmeruk‘s The Call for a Prophet and Shtetls and Cities
16. ‘The Tal Committee: The Missing Part’, Meymad, 25 (2003), pp. 23-26
(Hebrew)
On the recommendations
of the public committee for the re-evaluation of Yeshiva students’ exemption from army service
17. ‘Only Broken Shards Remain’, Ha'aretz (English
Edition), 2 May 2003
On Majer Balaban’s Toldot ha-Yehudim bi-Krakov u-ve-Kazimyezh (The
History of the Jews in Kraków and Kazimierz)
18. ‘The Seeds of Disaster’, Ha'aretz (English
Edition), 17 June 2005
On
the roots of the militant protests of the right wing before the Disengagement
from
19. ‘Let us not Forsake the
Spirit’, Ha’aretz (English
Edition), 10 January 2006
On
the crisis in the university faculties of humanities
20. ‘My
Heart was Divided Whether to Travel’,
Davka, 1 (2006), pp. 23-25 (Hebrew)
On
the experience of travel in Bratslav Hasidism
21. ‘Secrets
from the Kheyder’, Davka,
2 (2007), pp. 7-11 (Hebrew)
On
studies in the Kheyder and Mark Warshawski’s folk-song Oyfn
pripetshik
22. ‘Nevertheless Poland’, Ha’aretz, 18 April 2007
(Hebrew)
On
the public debate over the high-school tours to
23. ‘No Longer a “Nature Preserve”’, Ha’aretz (English
Edition), June 29, 2007, B, p. 7
On
Kimmy Caplan's Internal Popular Discourse in Israeli Haredi Society
24. ‘Thief,
Thief', Davka, 4 (2008), pp. 8-9 (Hebrew).
On Plagiarism in the Yiddish
Theatre.
25. 'From Humor to Horror',
Haaretz (English Edition), January 29, 2010
On
two generation of the Anshin Family
26. 'Mysteries
of the Besht ', Haaretz (English Edition), May 18, 2010
250 Death Anniversary of the
Besht
27. 'The
Tests of the Rebbe', Haaretz, March 2012
On
Immanuel Etkes’ Ba’al Ha-Tanya: Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady and the Origins
of Habad Hasidism
28. 'An Enlightened Rabbi from One Side, A
Hasidic Rebbe from the Other Side', Haaretz, June 2013
On Haim Gertner’ The Rabbi
and the City: The Rabbinate in Galicia and Its Encounter with Modernity,
1815-1867
29. 'An
Enigmatic Dedication to Gershom Scholem', Et-Mol, 231 (2013), pp. 1-2
30. 'Hasidim Will Not Read It,
But Rip It', Haaretz, April 14, 2014
On Jonatan Meir's critical edition of
Sefer Megale Temirin (Revealer of Secrets) by Joseph Perl
32. 'Revealer
Revealed', Jewish Book Review, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 2015), pp. 17-22
On Megale Temirin by Joseph
Perl, edited by Jonatan Meir (2 vols.); Hasidut Meudma by Jonatan Meir
(1 vol.)
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