Bezalel Safran (ed.), ‘Hasidism: Continuity or Innovation?’

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 41:2. Bezalel Safran (ed.), Hasidism: Continuity or Innovation? (Harvard Judaic Texts and Studies, V). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA / London, 1988. xviii, 144 pp. £4.75. This is an important but somewhat oddly balanced little book. Emanuel Etkas’s ‘Hasidism as a Movement’ occupies with the notes 26 pages; ‘The Origins…