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- Title
Women and Hasidism: A “Non-Sectarian” Perspective.
- Authors
Wodziński, Marcin
- Abstract
Hasidism has often been defined and viewed as a sect. By implication, if Hasidism was indeed a sect, then membership would have encompassed all the social ties of the “sectarians,” including their family ties, thus forcing us to consider their mothers, wives, and daughters as full-fledged female hasidim. In reality, however, women did not become hasidim in their own right, at least not in terms of the categories implied by the definition of Hasidism as a sect. Reconsideration of the logical implications of the identification of Hasidism as a sect leads to a radical re-evaluation of the relationship between the hasidic movement and its female constituency, and, by extension, of larger issues concerning the boundaries of Hasidism.
- Subjects
EASTERN Europe; WOMEN in religion; JEWISH sects; JEWISH women; HASIDISM; JEWISH prayers &; devotions; SECTARIANISM; JEWS; HISTORY; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Jewish History, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 2-4, p399
- ISSN
0334-701X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10835-013-9190-x