Hasidic Prayer
Published on 1. December 1984
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-0-19-710024-0 (ISBN)
Description
This first systematic study in English of the methods of prayer of the Hasidic mystical community includes the first translations of much of the source material.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-710024-0 (9780197100240)
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Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, was a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He was the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999), Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), and Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein's Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.