Hasidic prayer (The Littman library of Jewish civilization) - Hardcover

Jacobs, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0710073623 ISBN 13: 9780710073624

Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972

Synopsis

This is first systematic study in English of the methods of prayer of the Hasidic mystical community.

About this title

About the Author:

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), Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), and A Tree of Life (second edition 2000), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein's Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.

Review:

"Remarkably well done, with profound scholarship but presented in a readable and absorbing manner." -- Times Educational Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0710073623
• ISBN 13: 9780710073624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 195