Originally published in The Times Literary Supplement 4337 (1986), p. 541. Masters and modernizers Louis Jacobs ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism Edited by Samuel H. Dresner 213pp. University of Chicago Press. £23.75. 0 226 329607 RAPHAEL MAHLER Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment: Their confrontation in Galicia and Poland in the…
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