Jewish Studies at Duke University is an interdisciplinary collaboration across a variety of Departments that seeks to explore all aspects of the Jewish experience.
This volume is an attempt to present a comprehensive treatment of the Hasidic movement. Rabbi Tzvi Rabinowicz has compiled an encyclopaedia with hundreds of entries, including personalities, topics, and important literary works.
(Available Online) This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to the secular world.