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"Situรฉ ร  quatre kilomรจtres au nord-ouest de Lausanne, le chรขteau de Mรฉzery abrite lโ€™un des plus beaux salons peints du canton de Vaud. En 2011 et 2012, son nouveau propriรฉtaire fait entiรจrement rรฉnover le bรขtiment et ses boiseries peintes sont conservรฉes et restaurรฉes par lโ€™Atelier Saint-Dismas.
Classรฉ au patrimoine depuis 1981, cet ensemble peint est constituรฉ de 26 panneaux en bois de sapin formant un cycle de 19 scรจnes qui font pour la plupart rรฉfรฉrence aux divertissements de la noblesse de lโ€™Ancien Rรฉgime, la danse, la musique et le thรฉรขtre dโ€™une part, la promenade, la chasse et la pรชche dโ€™autre part. A ces thรฉmatiques sโ€™ajoutent quelques scรจnes pastorales ou galantes et une scรจne militaire."
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"" Throughout the nineteenth century, Maskilic journals increased their publication of anti-Hasidic satires. From the eighteen-sixties onward, this literature came primarily as a response to the revival in the publishing of Hasidic... more
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Throughout the nineteenth century, Maskilic journals increased their publication of anti-Hasidic satires. From the eighteen-sixties onward, this literature came primarily as a response to the revival in the publishing of Hasidic hagiography and to the spread of Hasidism into new territory. To this point, no complete review or even general survey has been performed on this extensive polemical literature, despite the fact that it has much to teach us about Hasidism and the Haskalah in those years. We are not speaking of an insignificant bibliographical lacuna, but of a disregard for an entire field of research which would shed light not only on a forgotten chapter of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature but also on an important chapter in the relationships between Maskilim and Hasidim in that period and the genesis and development of the different streams of Hasidism. This Maskilic literature intended to do more than eradicate Hasidism; it aimed to strengthen the self-consciousness of the individual Maskilim who found themselves alone in Hasidic territory. Paradoxically, the literature documented the very movement it intended to eradicate from the world. The distorted reflection displayed in the anti-Hasidic literature does more than present a caricature of its subject -- it conceals hitherto unknown elements about the nature and development of the Hasidic movement. The present article deals with one such case, a satire on Bratslav Hasidism from 1863, which has at its core a Maskilic satirical text written by Yehiel Meller on pilgrimage to the grave of R. Nahman of Bratslav in Uman.





ื›ืชื‘ื™ ืขืช ืฉืœ ืžืฉื›ื™ืœื™ื ืœืื•ืจืš ื”ืžืื” ื”ืชืฉืข ืขืฉืจื” ื”ืจื‘ื• ืœืคืจืกื ืกืื˜ื™ืจื•ืช ื‘ื’ื ื•ืชื” ืฉืœ ื”ื—ืกื™ื“ื•ืช. ืžืฉื ื•ืช ื”ืฉืฉื™ื ื•ืื™ืœืš ื‘ืื” ืกืคืจื•ืช ื–ื• ื‘ืขื™ืงืจ ื›ืชื’ื•ื‘ื” ืœื”ืชืขื•ืจืจื•ืช ื”ื“ืคืกืช ืกืคืจื•ืช ื”ืฉื‘ื—ื™ื ื”ื—ืกื™ื“ื™ืช ื•ืœื”ืชืคืฉื˜ื•ืช ื”ื—ืกื™ื“ื•ืช ื‘ืžืจื—ื‘ื™ื ื—ื“ืฉื™ื. ืœื ืงื™ื™ืžืช ืขื“ ืขืชื” ืกืงื™ืจื” ืฉืœื™ืžื”, ื•ืืฃ ืœื ืžื™ืคื•ื™ ื›ืœืœื™, ืฉืœ ืื•ืชื” ืกืคืจื•ืช ืคื•ืœืžื•ืกื™ืช ืขื ืคื”, ืขืœ ืืฃ ืฉื™ืฉ ื‘ื” ืœืœืžื“ ื”ืจื‘ื” ืขืœ ื“ืจื›ื™ ื”ื—ืกื™ื“ื•ืช ื•ื”ื”ืฉื›ืœื” ื‘ืื•ืชืŸ ืฉื ื™ื.  ืœื ืžื“ื•ื‘ืจ ืจืง ื‘ื—ืกืจื•ืŸ ื‘ื™ื‘ืœื™ื•ื’ืจืคื™ ืฉืื™ืŸ ืœื• ืžืฉืžืขื•ืช, ืืœื ื‘ื”ืชืขืœืžื•ืช ืžืฉื“ื” ืžื—ืงืจ ืจื‘ ืขื ื™ื™ืŸ ืฉืขืฉื•ื™ ืœื”ืื™ืจ ืœื ืจืง ืขืœ ืคืจืง ื ืฉื›ื— ื‘ืกืคืจื•ืช ืขื‘ืจื™ืช ื•ื™ื™ื“ื™ืฉ ื”ื—ื“ืฉื” ืืœื ื’ื ืขืœ ืคืจืง ื—ืฉื•ื‘ ื‘ื™ื—ืกื™ื ื‘ื™ืŸ ืžืฉื›ื™ืœื™ื ืœื—ืกื™ื“ื™ื ื‘ืื•ืชื” ืชืงื•ืคื”, ื•ืขืœ ื“ืจื›ื™ ืฆืžื™ื—ืชื, ืคื™ืฆื•ืœื ื•ื”ืชืคืชื—ื•ืชื ืฉืœ ื–ืจืžื™ื ืฉื•ื ื™ื ื‘ื—ืกื™ื“ื•ืช. ื”ื™ื™ืชื” ื–ื• ืกืคืจื•ืช ืฉื™ื•ืชืจ ืžืืฉืจ ื ื•ืขื“ื” ืœื‘ืขืจ ืืช ื”ื—ืกื™ื“ื•ืช ื ื•ืขื“ื” ืœื—ื–ืง ืืช ืชื•ื“ืขืชื ื”ืขืฆืžื™ืช ืฉืœ ื”ืžืฉื›ื™ืœื™ื ื”ื‘ื•ื“ื“ื™ื ื‘ืžืจื—ื‘ื™ื ื”ื—ืกื™ื“ื™ื™ื; ืกืคืจื•ืช ืฉื‘ืื•ืคืŸ ืคืจื“ื•ืงืกืœื™ ืชื™ืขื“ื” ืชื ื•ืขื” ืื•ืชื” ื—ืคืฆื• ืœื‘ืขืจ ืžืŸ ื”ืขื•ืœื. ื”ื‘ื‘ื•ืื” ื”ืžืขื•ื•ืชืช ื‘ื” ื”ืชื”ื“ืจื” ื”ืกืื˜ื™ืจื” ื”ืื ื˜ื™ ื—ืกื™ื“ื™ืช ืœื ืจืง ื”ืฆื™ื’ื” ื“ื™ืžื•ื™ โ€“ ืืœื ื˜ื•ืžื ืช ื‘ื—ื•ื‘ื” ื”ืฆื‘ืขื” ืขืœ ืืœืžื ื˜ื™ื ื—ื“ืฉื™ื ื•ืขืœ ื”ืชืคืชื—ื•ื™ื•ืช ื‘ื—ืกื™ื“ื•ืช. ื‘ืžืงืจื” ืื—ื“ ืžืžื™ืŸ ื–ื” ื”ื ื•ื’ืข ืœื—ืกื™ื“ื•ืช ื‘ืจืกืœื‘ ื‘ืฉื ื•ืช ื”ืฉื™ืฉื™ื ืฉืœ ื”ืžืื” ื”ืชืฉืข ืขืฉืจื” ืขื•ืกืง ื”ืžืืžืจ. ืฉืœืคื ื™ื ื• - ืฉืขื™ืงืจื• ืžื”ื“ื•ืจื” ืฉืœ ื˜ืงืกื˜ ืžืฉื›ื™ืœื™ ืฉื›ืชื‘ ื™ื—ื™ืืœ ืžืœืจ - ื‘ืฉื ืช 1863 - ืขืœ ื”ืขืœื™ื™ื” ืœืงื‘ืจ ืจ' ื ื—ืžืŸ ืžื‘ืจืกืœื‘ ื‘ืื•ืžืŸ
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"La catรฉgorie dโ€™humanisme commercial, forgรฉe par J. Pocock, dรฉsigne les transformations de la langue rรฉpublicaine moderne (ou humanisme civique) sous lโ€™effet de la montรฉe en puissance du capitalisme marchand : en tentant de concilier la ยซ... more
"La catรฉgorie dโ€™humanisme commercial, forgรฉe par J. Pocock, dรฉsigne les transformations de la langue rรฉpublicaine moderne (ou humanisme civique) sous lโ€™effet de la montรฉe en puissance du capitalisme marchand : en tentant de concilier la ยซ vertu ยป et le ยซ commerce ยป, le bien public et lโ€™intรฉrรชt particulier, il contribua ร  la naissance de lโ€™รฉconomie politique. Jusquโ€™ici cantonnรฉ ร  lโ€™aire anglophone, lโ€™usage de cette catรฉgorie a rรฉcemment รฉtรฉ รฉlargi ร  la France des Lumiรจres par une sรฉrie de contributions importantes, pour la plupart รฉtats-uniennes. Cet article se propose de faire le point sur ce renouvellement historiographique de lโ€™humanisme commercial, et propose pour finir une mise en perspective des apports et limites de lโ€™ร‰cole de Cambridge en histoire intellectuelle.

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The concept of commercial humanism was built by J. Pocock in order to indicate the transformation of the modern Republican language (or civic humanism) as a response to the rise of merchant capitalism: by reconciling โ€œvirtueโ€ and โ€œtradeโ€, public good and private interest, it has helped the rise of political economy. Hitherto confined to the English-speaking area, the use of this category has recently been expanded to French Enlightenment thanks to a set of important (mostly American) contributions. This article is dedicated to a critical review of the historiographical renewal on commercial humanism. It also gives a critical perspective on the assets and limitations of the Cambridge School in intellectual history."
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"Megaleh Temirin (Revealer of Secrets), first published in Vienna in 1819, is one of the sharpest and wittiest pieces of Jewish literature written in the first half of the nineteenth century, and is perhaps the most important piece of... more
"Megaleh Temirin (Revealer of Secrets), first published in Vienna in 1819, is one of the sharpest and wittiest pieces of Jewish literature written in the first half of the nineteenth century, and is perhaps the most important piece of Hebrew prose composed before the stories of Mendele Mocher Seforim. A sly and complex story deriding Hasidism and Hasidim, it is told through the correspondence between the beadles of Hasidic courts and contemporary rabbis, and it presents a dark picture of  avaricious frauds and swindlers whose main concern was control over territory and the souls of believers, a goal achieved by beguiling the authorities and attacking all opponents. Perl lends his book a โ€˜Hasidicโ€™ feel both in its physical design and in its language, presenting a Maskilic version of In Praise of the Baโ€™al Shem Tov that lays Hasidism bare so that no reader will ever be able to look at that, or any other Hasidic book, in the same way again. In addition to the bookโ€™s satiric sting, which would have been enough to bring its readers a dual pleasure, Perlโ€™s hints at contemporary people and places, hidden within anagrams and numerological tricks. With the unraveling of these clues, which also include the use of actual Hasidic sources, the book is a valuable, contemporary view of historical reality. A meticulous reading of the book may therefore open a window on the hidden worlds of Hasidism and the Haskalah at the start of the nineteenth century.

The first volume (Imagined Hasidism) serves as an introduction to the complex satirical writings of Josef Perl of Tarnopol (1773-1839). At the center of the book stands an analysis of the satires, Megaleh Temirin (1819) and Bochen Tzadik (1838), including a systematic treatment of the โ€˜charactersโ€™ in the central works and a discussion of the dozens of manuscripts to be found in the Perl Archive in Jerusalem. Perlโ€™s writings are analyzed here in the fuller context of Hebrew and Yiddish literature in general and Maskilic and Hasidic literature in particular, as well as other polemical writings and governmental records critical of Hasidism. The study thus presents a complex and nuanced picture of the relationship between literature and history, between the anti-Hasidic reports and the more complicated historical reality, and lays the groundwork for further research into the genre of nineteenth-century Maskilic satire.

The second and third volumes (Megaleh Temirin) present for the first time an annotated edition of Megaleh Temirin. It is based on the first edition and the scattered manuscripts and it includes a comparison to its Yiddish translation. The book is accompanied by appendices on its origins and contents, including fundamental treatments of several passages: an explication of the encoded names, the Hasidic sources used by the author, and the variants found in the manuscripts and in the only edition of the book in Yiddish.

The editor of the book, Professor Jonatan Meir, teaches in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. He has published several articles on the Haskalah of Eastern Europe, Hasidism, and a number of varied topics in twentieth-century Kabbalah.


""Imagined Hasidism - The Anti-Hasidic Writings of Joseph Perl
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Jonatan Meir

Contents
Preface                                                                                           

Introduction                                                                                     
Scholarship on the anti-Hasidic writings of Josef Perl โ€ข Hasidic hagiography and the emergence of satire โ€ข Two-fold reading of Perlโ€™s writings and the gematriyot โ€ข Satire, literature, and history โ€ข โ€˜Holy Booksโ€™ and subversive books

Chapter 1: Josef Perl, Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, and the โ€˜Holy Booksโ€™
Prayer of the fall of Hasidism and the expungement of their books โ€ข Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht and the critique of hagiography โ€ข Sefer Sipurey Maโ€˜asiyot and the parodic response to it โ€ข Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, โ€˜heretical booksโ€™ and the โ€˜Holy Booksโ€™ โ€ข In praise of the true Tsaddikim โ€ข โ€˜Laughter of the hereticsโ€™: testimonies about the polemics against Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โ€ข โ€˜Holy Booksโ€™, โ€˜sacredness of hagiographyโ€™, and parodies of hagiography โ€ข Appendix: Parodic manuscript about an opponent of the โ€˜Holy Booksโ€™ who was reborn as a horse

Chapter 2: Speaking Names in Sefer Megale Temirin                             
Time of the composition of Megale Temirin, censorship, and a note on the Buch โ€ข Hasidic books and the emergence of parody โ€ข Structure of Sefer Megale Temirin โ€ข The Introduction to Sefer Megale Temirin โ€ข Main Hasidic courts โ€ข The court in ลปoล‚yล„ (ลoลผne) and the peregrinations of the Buch โ€ข The court of Dishpal (Miฤ™dzyboลผ), moneyboxes of the Besht, the holy relics โ€ข The court in Aklo (Olika) and the ritualized reading of Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โ€ข Function of the footnotes and the parodic hagiography โ€ข History of the rabbis โ€“ clandestine opponents of Hasidism โ€ข The Besht in Tarnopol โ€ข Rabbi Meir Jacob of Zasล‚aw and the letters from Galicja  โ€ข Zaddikim in Galicja โ€ข Ciphered stories โ€ข โ€˜Holy Placesโ€™: reincarnations of a praise from Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โ€ข The revelation of the Buch and the death of the secretary โ€ข โ€˜Gang of criminalsโ€™: another death and an escape to the Land of Israel โ€ข The End: Ovadia Ben Petahia and the rabbi of Opatรณw

Chapter 3: Joseph Perl, Hirsh of Zydaczรณw, and the Polemics of Gematriyot
Reb Zevi Hirsh of Zydaczรณw and Hasidism in Galicja โ€ข Maskilic opposition to the Zydaczรณwer โ€ข Letters concealed in Sefer Megale Temirin โ€ข A manuscript about the misdeeds of the Hasidim โ€ข Books, education, and a note on Reb Nathan of Nemirov โ€ข Zydaczรณwerโ€™s ban on the Maskilim and the first Gematria โ€ข Parodic letter of Perl and the second Gematria โ€ข About the parodic letter and the jumble of gematriyot โ€ข Denunciation and expulsions of R Zevi Hirsh โ€ข โ€˜Father of impurityโ€™: Joseph Perl and the writings of the rabbi of Komarno โ€ข Final note โ€ข Appendix: Parodic letter against the Zydaczรณwer

Chapter 4: Speaking Names in the Book of Sefer Bohen Zaddik               
The manuscript of Sefer Bohen Zaddik and the difficulties with its publication โ€ข Structure of the book โ€ข In search for the true Zaddik and the rabbi of Opatรณw โ€ข Travels of Ovadia Ben Petahia between the towns of Galicja โ€ข Kromcza Ruska (Zaleszczyki) or the entrance to Galicja โ€ข โ€˜Briksโ€™ (Tarnopol): Rabbi Jehoshua Heschel Babad and the school โ€ข โ€˜Bicikโ€™ (Lemberg) Rabbi Jacob Orenstein and a ban on the Maskilim โ€ข โ€˜Abderaโ€™ (Brody) Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot and Sefer ha-Zoref โ€ข The explanation of the names of the rabbis โ€ข Utopia and dystopia โ€ข The hidden butcher and his kabbalistic writings โ€ข The discovery of the colonies โ€ข The image of the disciples of the Gaon and the โ€˜true Hasidโ€™ โ€ข โ€˜The solution for the Eastโ€™ or heterotopia โ€ข  The will to flee and the emissary

Chapter 5: The Imaginary Influence of Sefer Megale Temirin                     
The myth about the success of the book โ€ข Pamphlet Megale Sod โ€ข The manuscript about the misdeeds of the Hasidim โ€ข Dialogues about Sefer Megale Temirin โ€ข For whom Sefer Megale Temirin was intended and who read it โ€ข Note concerning Sefer Megale Temirin in Yiddish โ€ข Influence real and imagined โ€ข Was Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht written by a parodist? โ€ข Temerl Bergson and Sefer Megale Temirin โ€ข Writ of defense of Hasidism โ€ข Sefer Megale Temirin and the Hebrew literature โ€ข Appendix: writ of defense of Joseph Judah Lob Sossnitz

Afterword: Note on the Anti-Hasidic Outlook                                       

Bibliographic Abbreviations   



Review on Megaleh Temirin & Imagined Hasidism by prof. David Assaf

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