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The Eastern European Problem of Hasidic Studies

Tworek, Wojciech

The Jewish quarterly review, 2022-03, Vol.112 (2), p.256-259 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Título:
The Eastern European Problem of Hasidic Studies
Autor: Tworek, Wojciech
Assuntos: Anthropology ; Cultural change ; Cultural history ; Culture ; Geography ; Hasidism ; History of ideas ; Nostalgia ; Phenomenology ; Religion ; Religious beliefs ; Scholars ; Theology
É parte de: The Jewish quarterly review, 2022-03, Vol.112 (2), p.256-259
Descrição: Tworek says that his general impression is that there are three dominant modes in which Hasidic scholars engage with Eastern Europe. The first one is inadvertent erasure, in which this geography is relegated to the margins by, to paraphrase Daniel Dennett, free-floating rationales of Hasidic theology. The second one uses Eastern Europe as a symbolic reservoir of Hasidic culture divorced from its complex historical context, a frum variation of the Yiddishland nostalgia. The third one treats Eastern European spaces as actualized by Hasidic performance. His intention is not to discredit the prolific production of Hasidism scholarship in the phenomenology of religion, cultural history, history of ideas, anthropology, literary studies, and so on. Many excellent and illuminating studies emerge from these perspectives, but he would say that their relation to Eastern Europe is tangential at best. For the record, his own work subscribes heavily to the first and third models.
Editor: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Idioma: Inglês

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