Marcin Wodziński
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 379941 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marcin Wodziński |
| PRENOMES | Marcin |
| SOBRENOME | Wodziński |
| ASSINATURA | WODZIŃSKI M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wrocław |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0281-6391 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Celebrating Twenty Years of EJJS
Celebrating Twenty Years of ejjsSeveral years ago, in 2019, we celebrated 200 years of Jewish studies.This related back to the founding of the Verein für die Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden in Berlin in 1819.In comparison, it might sound futile to celebrate twenty years of the ejjs.However, while the Verein only existed for five years, its influence lasts up until today, and also the ejjs might be considered an offspring of the creative start i…
Marriage, leadership, and dynasties in Hasidism
Marital strategies are of significant importance in socio-religious movements with dynastic leadership. This article investigates marital strategies among the leaders of Hasidism, arguably the most prominent socio-religious movement of modern Jewry. The study is based on complete documentation records of all marriages by Hasidic leaders from the inception of Hasidism in the 1700s until today: 2,375 marital unions, mostly in 122 dynasties. The dat…
Hasidic Dynasties
This article investigates geosocial patterns of marriage strategies among the leadership of Hasidism, arguably the most prominent socio-religious movement of modern Jewry, known for its unique network of charismatic leaders organized in hereditary dynasties. The article's core premise is that grasping the network structure of the Hasidic movement's dynasties, which has been under-researched, is crucial to understanding the movement's social and c…
Josefa Rosensohna Tractatus de Kabała, czyli najstarszy oświeceniowy traktat o chasydyzmie
The Earliest Maskilic Treatise on Hasidism: Josef Rosensohn’s Tractatus de Kabała The article presents an unknown treatise written by a Vilna-based maskil and medical doctor, Josef Rosensohn (ca. 1774–1849). The newly discovered text, commissioned by a Polish aristocrat and Enlightenment activist Tadeusz Czacki (1765–1813), is the oldest maskilic treatise on Hasidism, written in either late 1804 or 1805, important not only for the history of the …
EJJS and European Jewish Studies
Eastern European Jewish Studies
This study, based on quantitative analysis of several bibliometric datasets, examines the position of East European Jewish studies. It is argued here that the number of studies on East European Jewry, as exemplified by the datasets analyzed here, is not proportional to its demographic, sociopolitical, or cultural position in history. The proportion seems rather to replicate the mental maps of “centrality” and “marginality” in the contemporary wor…
Żydowski samorząd ziemski w Koronie (XVII–XVIII wiek). Źródła, oprac. Adam Kaźmierczyk i Przemysław Zarubin, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2019, ss. 679
Studia Judaica » 2020 » Nr 2 (46) » Å»ydowski samorzÄ d ziemski w Koronie (XVII–XVIII wiek). Å1ródÅ a, oprac. Adam KaÅomierczyk i PrzemysÅ aw Zarubin, KsiÄ garnia Akademicka, Kraków 2019, ss. 679. A A A
Hasidic Attitudes Toward the Non-Jewish World
This article surveys the spectrum of Hasidic-gentile relations, from Hasidic perceptions of non-Jews to aspects of their everyday interactions as expressed in various Hasidic and non-Hasidic sources. We explore perspectives on non-Jews presented in Hasidic speculative teachings and consider the impact of these theories on the nature of Hasidic-gentile daily relations. We put particular emphasis on the level of egalitarian contacts among rank-and-…
A Definition
What did it mean for an ordinary Jew to be a Hasid? Although there are dozens of definitions of Hasidism, all of them are built on doctrinal categories. The chapter demonstrates these kinds of ideological definitions are inadequate, given that they turn Hasidism into an abstract doctrine, disconnected from its believers and their daily practices. Instead, this chapter offers a behavioral, or performative, definition of Hasidism as practiced in ev…
Economy
The self-image of Hasidism as a poor movement, typical of many religious groups in which the founding ethos of the group was in describing itself as untouched by earthly material desires, has been widely accepted in both common wisdom and the scholarship on Hasidism. Based on extensive narrative sources and some quantitative materials, this chapter provides a rich picture of Hasidic groups’ occupational and financial profile, which contradicts th…
Hasidism
Innovative and multidisciplinary in approaches, the book discusses the most cardinal features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline of Hasidism, one of the most important religious movements of modern Eastern Europe. This is the first such attempt to respond to those central questions of Hasidism in one book. Recognizing the major limitations of the existing research…
Conclusion
This Conclusion summarizes the findings of the seven preceding chapters on definition, women, leadership, demography, geography, economy, and the First World War in the history of Hasidism. It looks at Hasidism from egalitarian, rather then elitist, perspective, showing Hasidism as a religious movement similar to religious confraternities rather than to sects, institutionally misogynic, but attractive to some women in its religious and cultural o…
The End and the Beginning
This chapter asks what we know about the golden/classical period of Hasidism and when it ended. It demonstrates that long before the Holocaust, it was the First World War that brought a major crisis, from which Hasidism in the Old World never recovered. It discusses in turn the human and material losses suffered by the Hasidim, changes in the movement’s geography and their consequences, and ideological and political transformations Hasidism exper…
Women
This chapter poses a question on the now-popular image of women’s participation and their prominent role in the Hasidic movement. First, it argues that the exceptional cases of female Hasidic leaders, so popular in the academic writing on the subject, are not representative of the broader Hasidic world. Instead, the chapter offers an analysis of the possible forms of association with Hasidism among the wives, daughters, and mothers of rank-and-fi…
Historical Atlas of Hasidism
Hasidism
Space and spirit
The Socio-Economic Profile of a Religious Movement
This article revisits the once popular issue of the socio-occupational profile of Hasidism, arguably the most important socio-religious movement of modern Jewry. Well-known anecdotal materials are confronted with much broader archival sources, mainly from central Poland in the first half of the nineteenth century. These are both rich narrative sources (anti-Hasidic denunciations by the kahal elders, official reports on the Hasidic conflicts in th…
War and Religion; or, How the First World War Changed Hasidism
What were the effects of the Great War on religious life of East European Jews, as exemplified by its most visible, Hasidic section? What was unique in Hasidic experience of the Great War? This essay discusses the human and material losses suffered by the Hasidic movement, changes in the movement’s geography, ideological and political transformations surrounding and within Hasidism, and—most importantly—the specific changes in Hasidism caused by …
The Kingdom of Poland and her Jews
Hasidism and Politics
Reform and Exclusion
Jewish Studies in Poland
As in many other post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Jewish studies in Poland have undergone a process of very intensive development and transformation in recent years. From bei
Blood and the Hasidim
A rabbi‐informer and the Hasidim of Będzin. Dimensions of Hasidic politics
This study analyses the interplay between the high and the low, or local, level of Hasidic political engagement, an important matter, that has been so far neglected. The best‐known actions of Hasidic shtadlanim (political intercessors), such as interventions by Rabbi Isaac of Warka or Rabbi Menehem Mendel Schneersohn, occurred at the highest state levels, and attempted to influence regulations of a general nature. This portrays Hasidic politics a…
Space and spirit
Hasidism, Shtadlanut, and Jewish Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland
The paper examines political activities of R. Isaac of Warka, the best known Hasidic intercessor in Poland, against the background of both Jewish tradition of shtadlanut and the political environment of the nineteenth-century Congress Poland. It focuses on the strategies, tactics and tools of this activity, which, I clam, differed from those employed by the shtadlanim in the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The thesis of the paper is that thes…
Jewish Studies in Poland
As in many other post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Jewish studies in Poland have undergone a process of very intensive development and transformation in recent years. From bei
Good Maskilim and Bad Assimilationists, or Toward a New Historiography of the Haskalah in Poland
he Jewish Enlightenment movement in the territories of Central Poland—that is, in the Kingdom of Poland and its predecessor, the Duchy of Warsaw, as distinct from Russia or Galicia—is a phenomenon notable for its virtual absence from contemporary studies of the Haskalah and the history of Jewish society in nineteenth-century Poland.1 A mere cursory examination of most of the works devoted to the Haskalah in recent years shows that, in the minds o…
How Modern Is an Antimodernist Movement? The Emergence of Hasidic Politics in Congress Poland
The various efforts to reform Jewish society in Poland from the late eighteenth century on elicited reactions among the representatives of Jewish society, both among those who supported the reforms and among others, much more numerous, who were less favorably inclined toward reform. The hasidim were, of course, among the latter. All the reforms affected the hasidim, just as they did other members of the community, but certain actions directed aga…
Language, ideology and the beginnings of the integrationist movement in the Kingdom of Poland in the 1860s
Recent Developments in the Historiography of Silesian Jews
Leszek Ziątkowski, Ludność żydowska we Wrocławiu w latach 1812‒1914
Action
Hebrajskie inskrypcje na Slasku XIII-XVIII Wieku [Hebrew Inscriptions in Silesia in the 13th through 18th Centuries]
Some Remarks on Leszek Hóndo’s Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków
Language, ideology and the beginnings of the integrationist movement in the Kingdom of Poland in the 1860s
Good Maskilim and Bad Assimilationists, or Toward a New Historiography of the Haskalah in Poland
he Jewish Enlightenment movement in the territories of Central Poland—that is, in the Kingdom of Poland and its predecessor, the Duchy of Warsaw, as distinct from Russia or Galicia—is a phenomenon notable for its virtual absence from contemporary studies of the Haskalah and the history of Jewish society in nineteenth-century Poland.1 A mere cursory examination of most of the works devoted to the Haskalah in recent years shows that, in the minds o…
Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland
The conflict between Haskalah and hasidism was one of the most important forces in shaping the world of Polish Jewry for almost two centuries, but our understanding of it has long been dominated by theories based on stereotypes rather than detailed analysis. This book challenges the long-established theories about the conflict by contextualizing it, principally in the Kingdom of Poland but also with regard to other parts of eastern Europe. It fol…
Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland
Hasidism, Shtadlanut, and Jewish Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland
The paper examines political activities of R. Isaac of Warka, the best known Hasidic intercessor in Poland, against the background of both Jewish tradition of shtadlanut and the political environment of the nineteenth-century Congress Poland. It focuses on the strategies, tactics and tools of this activity, which, I clam, differed from those employed by the shtadlanim in the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The thesis of the paper is that thes…
Neither Hatred, nor Solidarity
How Modern Is an Antimodernist Movement? The Emergence of Hasidic Politics in Congress Poland
The various efforts to reform Jewish society in Poland from the late eighteenth century on elicited reactions among the representatives of Jewish society, both among those who supported the reforms and among others, much more numerous, who were less favorably inclined toward reform. The hasidim were, of course, among the latter. All the reforms affected the hasidim, just as they did other members of the community, but certain actions directed aga…
A rabbi‐informer and the Hasidim of Będzin. Dimensions of Hasidic politics
This study analyses the interplay between the high and the low, or local, level of Hasidic political engagement, an important matter, that has been so far neglected. The best‐known actions of Hasidic shtadlanim (political intercessors), such as interventions by Rabbi Isaac of Warka or Rabbi Menehem Mendel Schneersohn, occurred at the highest state levels, and attempted to influence regulations of a general nature. This portrays Hasidic politics a…
Blood and the Hasidim
Jewish Studies in Poland
As in many other post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Jewish studies in Poland have undergone a process of very intensive development and transformation in recent years. From bei
Reform and Exclusion
Hasidism and Politics
The Kingdom of Poland and her Jews
Space and spirit
The Socio-Economic Profile of a Religious Movement
This article revisits the once popular issue of the socio-occupational profile of Hasidism, arguably the most important socio-religious movement of modern Jewry. Well-known anecdotal materials are confronted with much broader archival sources, mainly from central Poland in the first half of the nineteenth century. These are both rich narrative sources (anti-Hasidic denunciations by the kahal elders, official reports on the Hasidic conflicts in th…
War and Religion; or, How the First World War Changed Hasidism
What were the effects of the Great War on religious life of East European Jews, as exemplified by its most visible, Hasidic section? What was unique in Hasidic experience of the Great War? This essay discusses the human and material losses suffered by the Hasidic movement, changes in the movement’s geography, ideological and political transformations surrounding and within Hasidism, and—most importantly—the specific changes in Hasidism caused by …
Hasidism
A Definition
What did it mean for an ordinary Jew to be a Hasid? Although there are dozens of definitions of Hasidism, all of them are built on doctrinal categories. The chapter demonstrates these kinds of ideological definitions are inadequate, given that they turn Hasidism into an abstract doctrine, disconnected from its believers and their daily practices. Instead, this chapter offers a behavioral, or performative, definition of Hasidism as practiced in ev…
Economy
The self-image of Hasidism as a poor movement, typical of many religious groups in which the founding ethos of the group was in describing itself as untouched by earthly material desires, has been widely accepted in both common wisdom and the scholarship on Hasidism. Based on extensive narrative sources and some quantitative materials, this chapter provides a rich picture of Hasidic groups’ occupational and financial profile, which contradicts th…
Hasidism
Innovative and multidisciplinary in approaches, the book discusses the most cardinal features of any social or religious movement: definition, gender, leadership, demographic size, geography, economy, and decline of Hasidism, one of the most important religious movements of modern Eastern Europe. This is the first such attempt to respond to those central questions of Hasidism in one book. Recognizing the major limitations of the existing research…
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