Don Seeman & Daniel Reiser 
Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal [EPUB ebook] 
The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Hasidism and Renewal

1. The Place of Piety: Piaseczno in the Landscape of Polish Hasidism
Marcin Wodziński

2. The Rebbe of Piaseczno: Between Two Trends in Hasidism
Moshe Idel

3. The Devotional Talmud: Study as a Sacred Quest
Ariel Evan Mayse

4. Mystical Fraternities: Jerusalem, Tiberius, and Warsaw: A Comparative Study of Goals, Structures, and Methods
Zvi Leshem

5. Self-Creation through Texts: Kalonymus Kalman Shapira’s Incarnational Theology
David Maayan

6. Hasidism in Dialogue with Modernity: Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira’s Derekh ha-Melekh
Ora Wiskind

Part II: Text, Theodicy, and Suffering

7. A New Reading of the Rebbe of Piaseczno’s Holocaust-Era Sermons: A Review of Daniel Reiser’s Critical Edition
Moria Herman

8. Creative Writing in the Shadow of Death: Psychological and Phenomenological Aspects of Rabbi Shapira’s Manuscript ‘Sermons from the Years of Rage’
Daniel Reiser

9. Miriam, Moses, and the Divinity of Children: Human Individuation at the Cusp of Persistence and Perishability
Nehemia Polen

10. Raging against Reason: Overcoming Sekhel in R. Shapira’s Thought
James A. Diamond

11. At the Edge of Explanation: Rethinking ‘Afflictions of Love’ in Sermons from the Years of Rage
Erin Leib Smokler

12. ‘Living with the Times’: Historical Context in the Wartime Writings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Henry Abramson

13. Covenantal Rupture and Broken Faith in Esh Kodesh
Shaul Magid

14. Pain and Words: On Suffering, Hasidic Modernism, and the Phenomenological Turn
Don Seeman

Contributors
Index

Don Seeman is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is the author of One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism. Daniel Reiser is Chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at Herzog College, Israel. His books include Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism. Ariel Evan Mayse is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh.