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"Situรฉ ร quatre kilomรจtres au nord-ouest de Lausanne, le chรขteau de Mรฉzery abrite lโun 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... more
"Situรฉ ร quatre kilomรจtres au nord-ouest de Lausanne, le chรขteau de Mรฉzery abrite lโun 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 lโAtelier 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 lโAncien Rรฉgime, la danse, la musique et le thรฉรขtre dโune part, la promenade, la chasse et la pรชche dโautre part. A ces thรฉmatiques sโajoutent quelques scรจnes pastorales ou galantes et une scรจne militaire."
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 lโAncien Rรฉgime, la danse, la musique et le thรฉรขtre dโune part, la promenade, la chasse et la pรชche dโautre part. A ces thรฉmatiques sโajoutent 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.
ืืชืื ืขืช ืฉื ืืฉืืืืื ืืืืจื ืืืื ืืชืฉืข ืขืฉืจื ืืจืื ืืคืจืกื ืกืืืืจืืช ืืื ืืชื ืฉื ืืืกืืืืช. ืืฉื ืืช ืืฉืฉืื ืืืืื ืืื ืกืคืจืืช ืื ืืขืืงืจ ืืชืืืื ืืืชืขืืจืจืืช ืืืคืกืช ืกืคืจืืช ืืฉืืืื ืืืกืืืืช ืืืืชืคืฉืืืช ืืืกืืืืช ืืืจืืืื ืืืฉืื. ืื ืงืืืืช ืขื ืขืชื ืกืงืืจื ืฉืืืื, ืืืฃ ืื ืืืคืื ืืืื, ืฉื ืืืชื ืกืคืจืืช ืคืืืืืกืืช ืขื ืคื, ืขื ืืฃ ืฉืืฉ ืื ืืืื ืืจืื ืขื ืืจืื ืืืกืืืืช ืืืืฉืืื ืืืืชื ืฉื ืื. ืื ืืืืืจ ืจืง ืืืกืจืื ืืืืืืืืจืคื ืฉืืื ืื ืืฉืืขืืช, ืืื ืืืชืขืืืืช ืืฉืื ืืืงืจ ืจื ืขื ืืื ืฉืขืฉืื ืืืืืจ ืื ืจืง ืขื ืคืจืง ื ืฉืื ืืกืคืจืืช ืขืืจืืช ืืืืืืฉ ืืืืฉื ืืื ืื ืขื ืคืจืง ืืฉืื ืืืืกืื ืืื ืืฉืืืืื ืืืกืืืื ืืืืชื ืชืงืืคื, ืืขื ืืจืื ืฆืืืืชื, ืคืืฆืืื ืืืชืคืชืืืชื ืฉื ืืจืืื ืฉืื ืื ืืืกืืืืช. ืืืืชื ืื ืกืคืจืืช ืฉืืืชืจ ืืืฉืจ ื ืืขืื ืืืขืจ ืืช ืืืกืืืืช ื ืืขืื ืืืืง ืืช ืชืืืขืชื ืืขืฆืืืช ืฉื ืืืฉืืืืื ืืืืืืื ืืืจืืืื ืืืกืืืืื; ืกืคืจืืช ืฉืืืืคื ืคืจืืืงืกืื ืชืืขืื ืชื ืืขื ืืืชื ืืคืฆื ืืืขืจ ืื ืืขืืื. ืืืืืื ืืืขืืืชืช ืื ืืชืืืจื ืืกืืืืจื ืืื ืื ืืกืืืืช ืื ืจืง ืืฆืืื ืืืืื โ ืืื ืืืื ืช ืืืืื ืืฆืืขื ืขื ืืืื ืืื ืืืฉืื ืืขื ืืชืคืชืืืืืช ืืืกืืืืช. ืืืงืจื ืืื ืืืื ืื ืื ืืืข ืืืกืืืืช ืืจืกืื ืืฉื ืืช ืืฉืืฉืื ืฉื ืืืื ืืชืฉืข ืขืฉืจื ืขืืกืง ืืืืืจ. ืฉืืคื ืื ื - ืฉืขืืงืจื ืืืืืจื ืฉื ืืงืกื ืืฉืืืื ืฉืืชื ืืืืื ืืืจ - ืืฉื ืช 1863 - ืขื ืืขืืืื ืืงืืจ ืจ' ื ืืื ืืืจืกืื ืืืืื
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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.
ืืชืื ืขืช ืฉื ืืฉืืืืื ืืืืจื ืืืื ืืชืฉืข ืขืฉืจื ืืจืื ืืคืจืกื ืกืืืืจืืช ืืื ืืชื ืฉื ืืืกืืืืช. ืืฉื ืืช ืืฉืฉืื ืืืืื ืืื ืกืคืจืืช ืื ืืขืืงืจ ืืชืืืื ืืืชืขืืจืจืืช ืืืคืกืช ืกืคืจืืช ืืฉืืืื ืืืกืืืืช ืืืืชืคืฉืืืช ืืืกืืืืช ืืืจืืืื ืืืฉืื. ืื ืงืืืืช ืขื ืขืชื ืกืงืืจื ืฉืืืื, ืืืฃ ืื ืืืคืื ืืืื, ืฉื ืืืชื ืกืคืจืืช ืคืืืืืกืืช ืขื ืคื, ืขื ืืฃ ืฉืืฉ ืื ืืืื ืืจืื ืขื ืืจืื ืืืกืืืืช ืืืืฉืืื ืืืืชื ืฉื ืื. ืื ืืืืืจ ืจืง ืืืกืจืื ืืืืืืืืจืคื ืฉืืื ืื ืืฉืืขืืช, ืืื ืืืชืขืืืืช ืืฉืื ืืืงืจ ืจื ืขื ืืื ืฉืขืฉืื ืืืืืจ ืื ืจืง ืขื ืคืจืง ื ืฉืื ืืกืคืจืืช ืขืืจืืช ืืืืืืฉ ืืืืฉื ืืื ืื ืขื ืคืจืง ืืฉืื ืืืืกืื ืืื ืืฉืืืืื ืืืกืืืื ืืืืชื ืชืงืืคื, ืืขื ืืจืื ืฆืืืืชื, ืคืืฆืืื ืืืชืคืชืืืชื ืฉื ืืจืืื ืฉืื ืื ืืืกืืืืช. ืืืืชื ืื ืกืคืจืืช ืฉืืืชืจ ืืืฉืจ ื ืืขืื ืืืขืจ ืืช ืืืกืืืืช ื ืืขืื ืืืืง ืืช ืชืืืขืชื ืืขืฆืืืช ืฉื ืืืฉืืืืื ืืืืืืื ืืืจืืืื ืืืกืืืืื; ืกืคืจืืช ืฉืืืืคื ืคืจืืืงืกืื ืชืืขืื ืชื ืืขื ืืืชื ืืคืฆื ืืืขืจ ืื ืืขืืื. ืืืืืื ืืืขืืืชืช ืื ืืชืืืจื ืืกืืืืจื ืืื ืื ืืกืืืืช ืื ืจืง ืืฆืืื ืืืืื โ ืืื ืืืื ืช ืืืืื ืืฆืืขื ืขื ืืืื ืืื ืืืฉืื ืืขื ืืชืคืชืืืืืช ืืืกืืืืช. ืืืงืจื ืืื ืืืื ืื ืื ืืืข ืืืกืืืืช ืืจืกืื ืืฉื ืืช ืืฉืืฉืื ืฉื ืืืื ืืชืฉืข ืขืฉืจื ืขืืกืง ืืืืืจ. ืฉืืคื ืื ื - ืฉืขืืงืจื ืืืืืจื ืฉื ืืงืกื ืืฉืืืื ืฉืืชื ืืืืื ืืืจ - ืืฉื ืช 1863 - ืขื ืืขืืืื ืืงืืจ ืจ' ื ืืื ืืืจืกืื ืืืืื
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Religion, Native American Religions, History, American History, Social Movements, and 177 moreSociology of Religion, Black Studies Or African American Studies, Native American Studies, Appalachian Studies, American Politics, Roman History, French History, Celtic Studies, History of Religion, British History, Higher Education, Graduate Education, Colonial America, Religion and Politics, American Indian History, Southern Studies (U.S. South), Anthropology Of Religion, War Studies, British Politics, Psychology of Religion, Calvinism, Anabaptism, Slavery, Enlightenment, History of Slavery, Colonialism, American Religion, Sociology of islam, Science and Religion, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, Religion & the Public Sphere, Stratification and Power, Southern History, Congregational Studies, Social Stratification, Presbyterianism, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Protestantism, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), Anabaptist Theology, History of Roman Catholicism, Secularization, French colonial Indochina, History of Islam, British Empire, Contemporary Movements and Trends in Islam, Colonization (British Empire), Enlightenment economic ideas, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Native American, American Revolution, Islam, John Calvin, Early Islam, Celtic History, Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, British Imperialism, Secularisms and Secularities, Appalachian and Southern Religion, Anabaptist Studies, Sociology of Slavery, Pietism, Puritans, 18th Century Enlightenment, American Protestantism, Roman Empire, Methodism, Religious History, Enlightenment Political Thought, European Enlightenment, Religion and Violence, Anglican Church History, High Church Anglicanism, History of the British Empire, 17th century England, German Pietism, Native American Anthropology, Native American (History), Roman Catholicism, Warfare, English Puritanism, Religious Fundamentalism, Islamic History and Muslim Civilization, Muslim, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Holy War, Colonial Discourse, American Indian Studies, Anglican Theology, Rebellion, German Colonialism, Black Slavery between Africa and the USA, American Revolutionary ideology, Secularism, Roman colonisation, Church of England, Appalachian History, Slavery in the Americas, American and Native American History, Eighteenth Century Radical Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, Religious Revivals, American Revolutionary War, History of Power, Rebellion and Freedom, Puritanism, Awakening, Apologetics, Great Awakening, American Puritanism, The Episcopal Church, Mecca, Shakers, Antichrist, Anglican Church, Protestant Reformation, Revivalism, Quakers, Anglican Communion, Colonial Studies, Early American History (colonial, revolutionary, and early republic), History of the Great Awakening Movement, Fundamentalist Christianity, Appalachia, Eighteenth-Century British History and the American Revolution, Ecclesiology, Missional Church, Congregational Ministry, Druids, Salvation, Moslem, Native American spirituality, Roman colonization, Anabaptists, eighteenth century Methodism, Great Britain, Maji Maji War, History of the Americas/ slavery/ African and American History, Anglican Studies, Religious War, Puritanism, History of Methodism, Anglicanism, Anabaptist History and Theology, History and Development of Anglicanism, Congregationalism, Roman Catholic church, Early American Methodism, Druid history and culture, American History Revolutionary War, Slaves, Native American Religious Traditions of the Americas, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Anabaptist Hermeneutics, Quakers in the 18th century, Seventeenth century Quakers, Episcopal Church history, History of Southern Appalachia, Southern Appalachia history, Radical Enlightenment, German East Africa, Religious Society of Friends Quakers, History of the Church of England, Religious Warfare, American and Great Britain politics, Presbyterian Church History, History of Protestantism, Realtors in Quakers Hill, Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, The Puritans, Anti Christ, Enlightenment Period, Theory and Rebellion and Revolution, Appalachian Cultural History, Religious Revivalism, Pilgramage, Colonialism and Imperialism, Religion and Warfare, American Colonial History, History of Great Britain, Contemporary Muslim society, and Enlighttenmentedit
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"La catรฉgorie dโhumanisme commercial, forgรฉe par J. Pocock, dรฉsigne les transformations de la langue rรฉpublicaine moderne (ou humanisme civique) sous lโeffet de la montรฉe en puissance du capitalisme marchand : en tentant de concilier la ยซ... more
"La catรฉgorie dโhumanisme commercial, forgรฉe par J. Pocock, dรฉsigne les transformations de la langue rรฉpublicaine moderne (ou humanisme civique) sous lโeffet 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 lโintรฉrรชt particulier, il contribua ร la naissance de lโรฉconomie politique. Jusquโici cantonnรฉ ร lโaire anglophone, lโusage 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 lโhumanisme commercial, et propose pour finir une mise en perspective des apports et limites de lโรcole de Cambridge en histoire intellectuelle.
Abstract
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 โvirtueโ and โtradeโ, 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."
Abstract
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 โvirtueโ and โtradeโ, 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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Liberalism, CIvic Humanism, History of Political Economic Thought, Enlightenment, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), and 25 moreIntellectual History of Enlightenment, History of Political Thought, 18th & 19th Centuries, Enlightenment economic ideas, 18th Century Enlightenment, Enlightenment Political Thought, Liberalism and Republicanism, 18th Century France, 18th Century, Civic Humanism (Philosophy), Classical Liberalism, Quentin Skinner, History of Political Economy, the Enlightenment, J g a pocock, Lumiรจres franรงaises, French Enlightenment, Enlightment, Europe Des Lumiรจres, Humanisme, History of political economy thought, History of economic ideas, Cambridge School of Political Thought, Histoire Intellectuelle Et Sociale Des Lumiรจres, and Humanisme Civiqueedit
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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 โHasidicโ feel both in its physical design and in its language, presenting a Maskilic version of In Praise of the Baโal 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 bookโs satiric sting, which would have been enough to bring its readers a dual pleasure, Perlโs 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 โcharactersโ in the central works and a discussion of the dozens of manuscripts to be found in the Perl Archive in Jerusalem. Perlโs 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jonatan Meir
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Scholarship on the anti-Hasidic writings of Josef Perl โข Hasidic hagiography and the emergence of satire โข Two-fold reading of Perlโs writings and the gematriyot โข Satire, literature, and history โข โHoly Booksโ and subversive books
Chapter 1: Josef Perl, Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, and the โHoly Booksโ
Prayer of the fall of Hasidism and the expungement of their books โข Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht and the critique of hagiography โข Sefer Sipurey Maโasiyot and the parodic response to it โข Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, โheretical booksโ and the โHoly Booksโ โข In praise of the true Tsaddikim โข โLaughter of the hereticsโ: testimonies about the polemics against Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โข โHoly Booksโ, โsacredness of hagiographyโ, and parodies of hagiography โข Appendix: Parodic manuscript about an opponent of the โHoly 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 โข Hasidic books and the emergence of parody โข Structure of Sefer Megale Temirin โข The Introduction to Sefer Megale Temirin โข Main Hasidic courts โข The court in ลปoลyล (ลoลผne) and the peregrinations of the Buch โข The court of Dishpal (Miฤdzyboลผ), moneyboxes of the Besht, the holy relics โข The court in Aklo (Olika) and the ritualized reading of Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โข Function of the footnotes and the parodic hagiography โข History of the rabbis โ clandestine opponents of Hasidism โข The Besht in Tarnopol โข Rabbi Meir Jacob of Zasลaw and the letters from Galicja โข Zaddikim in Galicja โข Ciphered stories โข โHoly Placesโ: reincarnations of a praise from Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โข The revelation of the Buch and the death of the secretary โข โGang of criminalsโ: another death and an escape to the Land of Israel โข 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 โข Maskilic opposition to the Zydaczรณwer โข Letters concealed in Sefer Megale Temirin โข A manuscript about the misdeeds of the Hasidim โข Books, education, and a note on Reb Nathan of Nemirov โข Zydaczรณwerโs ban on the Maskilim and the first Gematria โข Parodic letter of Perl and the second Gematria โข About the parodic letter and the jumble of gematriyot โข Denunciation and expulsions of R Zevi Hirsh โข โFather of impurityโ: Joseph Perl and the writings of the rabbi of Komarno โข Final note โข 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 โข Structure of the book โข In search for the true Zaddik and the rabbi of Opatรณw โข Travels of Ovadia Ben Petahia between the towns of Galicja โข Kromcza Ruska (Zaleszczyki) or the entrance to Galicja โข โBriksโ (Tarnopol): Rabbi Jehoshua Heschel Babad and the school โข โBicikโ (Lemberg) Rabbi Jacob Orenstein and a ban on the Maskilim โข โAbderaโ (Brody) Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot and Sefer ha-Zoref โข The explanation of the names of the rabbis โข Utopia and dystopia โข The hidden butcher and his kabbalistic writings โข The discovery of the colonies โข The image of the disciples of the Gaon and the โtrue Hasidโ โข โThe solution for the Eastโ or heterotopia โข The will to flee and the emissary
Chapter 5: The Imaginary Influence of Sefer Megale Temirin
The myth about the success of the book โข Pamphlet Megale Sod โข The manuscript about the misdeeds of the Hasidim โข Dialogues about Sefer Megale Temirin โข For whom Sefer Megale Temirin was intended and who read it โข Note concerning Sefer Megale Temirin in Yiddish โข Influence real and imagined โข Was Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht written by a parodist? โข Temerl Bergson and Sefer Megale Temirin โข Writ of defense of Hasidism โข Sefer Megale Temirin and the Hebrew literature โข 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
http://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/.premium-1.2295695
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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 โcharactersโ in the central works and a discussion of the dozens of manuscripts to be found in the Perl Archive in Jerusalem. Perlโs 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jonatan Meir
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Scholarship on the anti-Hasidic writings of Josef Perl โข Hasidic hagiography and the emergence of satire โข Two-fold reading of Perlโs writings and the gematriyot โข Satire, literature, and history โข โHoly Booksโ and subversive books
Chapter 1: Josef Perl, Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, and the โHoly Booksโ
Prayer of the fall of Hasidism and the expungement of their books โข Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht and the critique of hagiography โข Sefer Sipurey Maโasiyot and the parodic response to it โข Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, โheretical booksโ and the โHoly Booksโ โข In praise of the true Tsaddikim โข โLaughter of the hereticsโ: testimonies about the polemics against Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โข โHoly Booksโ, โsacredness of hagiographyโ, and parodies of hagiography โข Appendix: Parodic manuscript about an opponent of the โHoly 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 โข Hasidic books and the emergence of parody โข Structure of Sefer Megale Temirin โข The Introduction to Sefer Megale Temirin โข Main Hasidic courts โข The court in ลปoลyล (ลoลผne) and the peregrinations of the Buch โข The court of Dishpal (Miฤdzyboลผ), moneyboxes of the Besht, the holy relics โข The court in Aklo (Olika) and the ritualized reading of Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โข Function of the footnotes and the parodic hagiography โข History of the rabbis โ clandestine opponents of Hasidism โข The Besht in Tarnopol โข Rabbi Meir Jacob of Zasลaw and the letters from Galicja โข Zaddikim in Galicja โข Ciphered stories โข โHoly Placesโ: reincarnations of a praise from Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht โข The revelation of the Buch and the death of the secretary โข โGang of criminalsโ: another death and an escape to the Land of Israel โข 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 โข Maskilic opposition to the Zydaczรณwer โข Letters concealed in Sefer Megale Temirin โข A manuscript about the misdeeds of the Hasidim โข Books, education, and a note on Reb Nathan of Nemirov โข Zydaczรณwerโs ban on the Maskilim and the first Gematria โข Parodic letter of Perl and the second Gematria โข About the parodic letter and the jumble of gematriyot โข Denunciation and expulsions of R Zevi Hirsh โข โFather of impurityโ: Joseph Perl and the writings of the rabbi of Komarno โข Final note โข 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 โข Structure of the book โข In search for the true Zaddik and the rabbi of Opatรณw โข Travels of Ovadia Ben Petahia between the towns of Galicja โข Kromcza Ruska (Zaleszczyki) or the entrance to Galicja โข โBriksโ (Tarnopol): Rabbi Jehoshua Heschel Babad and the school โข โBicikโ (Lemberg) Rabbi Jacob Orenstein and a ban on the Maskilim โข โAbderaโ (Brody) Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot and Sefer ha-Zoref โข The explanation of the names of the rabbis โข Utopia and dystopia โข The hidden butcher and his kabbalistic writings โข The discovery of the colonies โข The image of the disciples of the Gaon and the โtrue Hasidโ โข โThe solution for the Eastโ or heterotopia โข The will to flee and the emissary
Chapter 5: The Imaginary Influence of Sefer Megale Temirin
The myth about the success of the book โข Pamphlet Megale Sod โข The manuscript about the misdeeds of the Hasidim โข Dialogues about Sefer Megale Temirin โข For whom Sefer Megale Temirin was intended and who read it โข Note concerning Sefer Megale Temirin in Yiddish โข Influence real and imagined โข Was Sefer Shivhe ha-Besht written by a parodist? โข Temerl Bergson and Sefer Megale Temirin โข Writ of defense of Hasidism โข Sefer Megale Temirin and the Hebrew literature โข 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
http://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/study/.premium-1.2295695
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