Originally published in Judaism Today, Autumn 1998. Allan Nadler, The Faith of the Mithnagdim – Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rupture. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1997. pp. 254, £29.00. Numerous studies have been made of the conflict, which began in the second half of the 18th century—and is not without reverberations to this very day—between…
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