Originally published in The Times Literary Supplement 4805 (1995), p. 12. How Hasidism began LOUIS JACOBS Moshe Idel, HASIDISM: Between ecstasy and magic. 1438pp. Albany: SUNY; distributed in the UK by Estover: Plymbridge. £60 (paperback, £20). 079I417336. Janet S. Belcove-Shalin, editor. NEW WORLD HASIDIM: Ethnographic studies of Hasidic Jews in America. 285pp. Albany: SUNY: distributed in…
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