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Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries
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Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ] The…

Contributor:

Ita Kalish

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1965

Subjects:

Hasidism, Family, Aliyah, Holocaust, Nazis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Religion & Theology
Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages
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This book is intended as a description of a “traditional society”—that is, a society that saw itself as based upon a body of knowledge and a set of values handed down to…

Contributor:

Jacob Katz

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Date:

1958

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Hasidism, Enlightenment, Class, Community

Categories:

Political Culture