Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 47:1. Gloria Wiederkehr-Polack, Eliezer Zweifel and the Intellectual Defense of Hasidism. KTAV Publishing House, Hoboken, N.J., 1995. x, 254 pp. $39.50. Daniel Meijers, Ascetic Hasidism in Jerusalem: The-Guardian-of-the-Faithful Community of Mea Shearim. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1992. vii, 142 pp. £33.75/$51.50. Nowadays, in addition to the many studies of Hasidic…
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