Ada Rapoport-Albert
Biographic Data
| ID | 556847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ada Rapoport-Albert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ada |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapoport-Albert |
| SIGNATURE | RAPOPORT-ALBERT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender
This volume shows the erudition of the author's contribution to rewriting the master-narrative of hasidic history. We now know that eighteenth-century Hasidism evolved in a context of intense spirituality. It developed through a process of differentiation from traditional ascetic-mystical hasidism. Its elite leaders only became conscious of a distinctive group identity after the Ba'al Shem Tov's death, and they subsequently spent the period from …
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816
Women are conspicuously absent from the Jewish mystical tradition. The chance survival of scant evidence suggests that, at various times and places, individual Jewish women did pursue the path of mystical piety or prophetic spirituality, but it appears that they were generally censured, and efforts were made to suppress their activities. This contrasts sharply with the fully acknowledged prominence of women in the mystical traditions of both Chri…
Chimen Abramsky 12 September 1916–14 March 2010
Michael Weitzman, Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, 25 July 1946-21 March 1998
Hagiography with Footnotes: Edifying Tales and the Writing of History in Hasidism
Ada Rapoport-Albert, Hagiography with Footnotes: Edifying Tales and the Writing of History in Hasidism, History and Theory, Vol. 27, No. 4, Beiheft 27: Essays in Jewish Historiography (Dec., 1988), pp. 119-159
Raphael Mahler, Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment . Translated from the Yiddish by Eugene Orenstein, translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein
God and the Zaddik as the Two Focal Points of Hasidic Worship
Hagiography with Footnotes: Edifying Tales and the Writing of History in Hasidism
Ada Rapoport-Albert, Hagiography with Footnotes: Edifying Tales and the Writing of History in Hasidism, History and Theory, Vol. 27, No. 4, Beiheft 27: Essays in Jewish Historiography (Dec., 1988), pp. 119-159
God and the Zaddik as the Two Focal Points of Hasidic Worship
God and the Zaddik as the Two Focal Points of Hasidic Worship
Raphael Mahler, Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment . Translated from the Yiddish by Eugene Orenstein, translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein
Hagiography with Footnotes: Edifying Tales and the Writing of History in Hasidism
Ada Rapoport-Albert, Hagiography with Footnotes: Edifying Tales and the Writing of History in Hasidism, History and Theory, Vol. 27, No. 4, Beiheft 27: Essays in Jewish Historiography (Dec., 1988), pp. 119-159
Michael Weitzman, Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, 25 July 1946-21 March 1998
Chimen Abramsky 12 September 1916–14 March 2010
Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 - 1816
Women are conspicuously absent from the Jewish mystical tradition. The chance survival of scant evidence suggests that, at various times and places, individual Jewish women did pursue the path of mystical piety or prophetic spirituality, but it appears that they were generally censured, and efforts were made to suppress their activities. This contrasts sharply with the fully acknowledged prominence of women in the mystical traditions of both Chri…
Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender
This volume shows the erudition of the author's contribution to rewriting the master-narrative of hasidic history. We now know that eighteenth-century Hasidism evolved in a context of intense spirituality. It developed through a process of differentiation from traditional ascetic-mystical hasidism. Its elite leaders only became conscious of a distinctive group identity after the Ba'al Shem Tov's death, and they subsequently spent the period from …
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · Hebrew (2 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (2 works)