Glenn Dynner
Biographic Data
| ID | 694163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn Dynner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Dynner |
| SIGNATURE | DYNNER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sarah Lawrence College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Jewish Women in Modern Eastern and East Central Europe
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the HolocaustJeffrey S Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the HolocaustJeffrey S Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg Jeffrey S Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018), 192 pp., hardcover $29.95, electronic version available. Glenn Dynner Glenn Dynner Sarah Lawrence College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust a…
S hachar P insker . A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
In Shachar Pinsker’s colorful narrative about Jewish café life, one scene in particular stands out. Annoyed by the perceived intolerance of Warsaw Jewish intellectuals, the Yiddish actor Shimen Dzigan and his friends decide to dress themselves in Hasidic garb and besiege one of their cafés. When asked politely by the owner to leave, the actors depart and then return wearing their modern European clothes, joyfully revealing their prank to the reli…
Jewish Traditionalism in Eastern Europe: The Historiographical Gadfly
The Kingdom of Poland and her Jews: An Introduction
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 27
A Jewish Drunk Is Hard to Find”: Jewish Drinking Practices and the Sobriety Stereotype in Eastern Europe
“A Jewish Drunk Is Hard to Find”: Jewish Drinking Practices and the Sobriety Stereotype in Eastern Europe Glenn Dynner Indeed, one frequently observes in life how great and even monumental consequences are the product of minute causes. A peasant sows wheat; a miller mills some of it into flour; the rest finds its way to a distillery where it is made into vodka; a portion of both is delivered to Gittel the tavernkeeper; she adds a bit of yeast and…
Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland
In towns and villages throughout partitioned Poland, the sole venue for leisure, hospitality, business, and even Christian religious festivities was often the Jewish-run tavern. Only Jews, the Polish nobles who owned the taverns believed, had the necessary literacy, skills, and most importantly, sobriety, to run a profitable tavern. Polish Christians came to rely on their Jewish tavernkeeper not only for liquor, but for advice, loans, remedies, a…
The Hasidic Tale as a Historical Source: Historiography and Methodology
A review of the discourse on Hasidic tales reveals a persistent vagueness on the crucial question of how, precisely, historians should read hagiography. Can elements of certain tales stand on their own as historical sources? After a review of the current debates about the historicity of Hasidic tales, this paper introduces several historically oriented redactors whose collections constitute a rich repository of information about events, phenomena…
Yihus
Sermons, Stories, and Songs
Hasidic marketing campaigns employed everything from printed sermons and tales to oral tales, songs, and dances. This chapter argues that that these methods were earmarked for specific social groups. The importance of Hasidic printing as a vehicle for reaching the male intellectual elite has been underestimated, as demonstrated through a survey of the impressive number of printed works and an analysis of their endorsements (haskamot). Tale collec…
Conclusion
Author Webpage The Besht once compared the outside observer of Hasidism to a deaf man who happens upon a group of blissfully dancing Jews. Unable to hear the music, the man assumes that the dancers are complete lunatics.1Close The message for critics of Hasidism is clear: lacking insight into the movement's mysteries, they see only lunacy. How could they possibly understand that by cleaving to each other in loving unity the dancers are elevating …
Hasidism in Central Poland, 1754–1830
This chapter highlights the regional distinctiveness of Polish Hasidism and attempts to quantify its regional expansion. Polish Hasidism shared the broader theological and experiential features of Hasidism in other regions. But the impact of the unique Central Polish context is reflected in its more urban, cosmopolitan, and economically adept leaders and adherents, as well as in its meritocratic tendencies during leadership succession. In estimat…
Warsaw and the Patrons of Polish Hasidism
The successful Hasidic ascendancy of the prior chapter is, in great part, attributable to Polish Hasidism's vast patronage network among the region's Jewish mercantile elite. The chapter commences with an account of the rise of the Jewish mercantile elite in Warsaw. This is followed by a reconstruction of the penetration of this elite group by Hasidic leaders, with a focus on the preeminent mercantile family, the Bergsons. This includes an in-dep…
Anatomy of a Hasidic Conquest
Charlatans or “Lovers of Israel”?
This chapter evaluates the movement's grassroots appeal through its miracle working enterprises, arguing that Polish zaddikim were neither charlatans, nor were they, technically speaking, “popular” leaders. In their embrace of folk religion, they were apparently sincere and differed little from traditional mystical practitioners,ba'alei shem, but differed markedly in their social status and concomitant influence among the Jewish masses and Polish…
Men of Silk: The Hasidic conquest of Polish Jewish Society
This study traces the development of the 19th century movement which altered the spiritual, cultural and social timbre of Jewish communities across Eastern and East Central Europe. It highlights its' origins and shows how the movement was built up by securing support, neutralizing opposition and controlling communities
Merchant Princes and Tsadikim: The Patronage of Polish Hasidism
The vast expansion of Hasidism after the death of the movement's spiritual founder, R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov ("The Besht," d. 1760), and his preeminent successor, R. Dov Ber, the "Great Magid" of Międzyrzecz (d. 1772), has long fascinated scholars of East European Jewry. Most commonly, this expansion is attributed to the charismatic personalities and innovative doctrines of Hasidic leaders, or tsadikim. Yet few have paused to consider how those l…
The Hasidic Conquest of Small-Town Central Poland, 1754‒1818
David Assaf, Derekh hamalkhut: R. yisrael miruzhin
Men of Silk: The Hasidic conquest of Polish Jewish Society
This study traces the development of the 19th century movement which altered the spiritual, cultural and social timbre of Jewish communities across Eastern and East Central Europe. It highlights its' origins and shows how the movement was built up by securing support, neutralizing opposition and controlling communities
Merchant Princes and Tsadikim: The Patronage of Polish Hasidism
The vast expansion of Hasidism after the death of the movement's spiritual founder, R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov ("The Besht," d. 1760), and his preeminent successor, R. Dov Ber, the "Great Magid" of Międzyrzecz (d. 1772), has long fascinated scholars of East European Jewry. Most commonly, this expansion is attributed to the charismatic personalities and innovative doctrines of Hasidic leaders, or tsadikim. Yet few have paused to consider how those l…
David Assaf, Derekh hamalkhut: R. yisrael miruzhin
The Hasidic Conquest of Small-Town Central Poland, 1754‒1818
Merchant Princes and Tsadikim: The Patronage of Polish Hasidism
The vast expansion of Hasidism after the death of the movement's spiritual founder, R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov ("The Besht," d. 1760), and his preeminent successor, R. Dov Ber, the "Great Magid" of Międzyrzecz (d. 1772), has long fascinated scholars of East European Jewry. Most commonly, this expansion is attributed to the charismatic personalities and innovative doctrines of Hasidic leaders, or tsadikim. Yet few have paused to consider how those l…
Yihus
Sermons, Stories, and Songs
Hasidic marketing campaigns employed everything from printed sermons and tales to oral tales, songs, and dances. This chapter argues that that these methods were earmarked for specific social groups. The importance of Hasidic printing as a vehicle for reaching the male intellectual elite has been underestimated, as demonstrated through a survey of the impressive number of printed works and an analysis of their endorsements (haskamot). Tale collec…
Conclusion
Author Webpage The Besht once compared the outside observer of Hasidism to a deaf man who happens upon a group of blissfully dancing Jews. Unable to hear the music, the man assumes that the dancers are complete lunatics.1Close The message for critics of Hasidism is clear: lacking insight into the movement's mysteries, they see only lunacy. How could they possibly understand that by cleaving to each other in loving unity the dancers are elevating …
Hasidism in Central Poland, 1754–1830
This chapter highlights the regional distinctiveness of Polish Hasidism and attempts to quantify its regional expansion. Polish Hasidism shared the broader theological and experiential features of Hasidism in other regions. But the impact of the unique Central Polish context is reflected in its more urban, cosmopolitan, and economically adept leaders and adherents, as well as in its meritocratic tendencies during leadership succession. In estimat…
Warsaw and the Patrons of Polish Hasidism
The successful Hasidic ascendancy of the prior chapter is, in great part, attributable to Polish Hasidism's vast patronage network among the region's Jewish mercantile elite. The chapter commences with an account of the rise of the Jewish mercantile elite in Warsaw. This is followed by a reconstruction of the penetration of this elite group by Hasidic leaders, with a focus on the preeminent mercantile family, the Bergsons. This includes an in-dep…
Anatomy of a Hasidic Conquest
Charlatans or “Lovers of Israel”?
This chapter evaluates the movement's grassroots appeal through its miracle working enterprises, arguing that Polish zaddikim were neither charlatans, nor were they, technically speaking, “popular” leaders. In their embrace of folk religion, they were apparently sincere and differed little from traditional mystical practitioners,ba'alei shem, but differed markedly in their social status and concomitant influence among the Jewish masses and Polish…
Men of Silk: The Hasidic conquest of Polish Jewish Society
This study traces the development of the 19th century movement which altered the spiritual, cultural and social timbre of Jewish communities across Eastern and East Central Europe. It highlights its' origins and shows how the movement was built up by securing support, neutralizing opposition and controlling communities
The Hasidic Tale as a Historical Source: Historiography and Methodology
A review of the discourse on Hasidic tales reveals a persistent vagueness on the crucial question of how, precisely, historians should read hagiography. Can elements of certain tales stand on their own as historical sources? After a review of the current debates about the historicity of Hasidic tales, this paper introduces several historically oriented redactors whose collections constitute a rich repository of information about events, phenomena…
Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland
In towns and villages throughout partitioned Poland, the sole venue for leisure, hospitality, business, and even Christian religious festivities was often the Jewish-run tavern. Only Jews, the Polish nobles who owned the taverns believed, had the necessary literacy, skills, and most importantly, sobriety, to run a profitable tavern. Polish Christians came to rely on their Jewish tavernkeeper not only for liquor, but for advice, loans, remedies, a…
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 27
A Jewish Drunk Is Hard to Find”: Jewish Drinking Practices and the Sobriety Stereotype in Eastern Europe
“A Jewish Drunk Is Hard to Find”: Jewish Drinking Practices and the Sobriety Stereotype in Eastern Europe Glenn Dynner Indeed, one frequently observes in life how great and even monumental consequences are the product of minute causes. A peasant sows wheat; a miller mills some of it into flour; the rest finds its way to a distillery where it is made into vodka; a portion of both is delivered to Gittel the tavernkeeper; she adds a bit of yeast and…
The Kingdom of Poland and her Jews: An Introduction
Jewish Traditionalism in Eastern Europe: The Historiographical Gadfly
Introduction: Jewish Women in Modern Eastern and East Central Europe
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the HolocaustJeffrey S Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the HolocaustJeffrey S Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg Jeffrey S Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018), 192 pp., hardcover $29.95, electronic version available. Glenn Dynner Glenn Dynner Sarah Lawrence College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust a…
S hachar P insker . A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
In Shachar Pinsker’s colorful narrative about Jewish café life, one scene in particular stands out. Annoyed by the perceived intolerance of Warsaw Jewish intellectuals, the Yiddish actor Shimen Dzigan and his friends decide to dress themselves in Hasidic garb and besiege one of their cafés. When asked politely by the owner to leave, the actors depart and then return wearing their modern European clothes, joyfully revealing their prank to the reli…
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