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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Chana Rochel Werbermacher; Chana Rochel Werbermacher |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nathaniel Deutsch |
| ISBN: | 0520231910 9780520231917 |
| OCLC Number: | 50913520 |
| Description: | xix, 310 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Janusz Bardach -- Introduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir -- A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Literary Figure -- Writing the Maiden -- Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden -- The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden -- Birth and Childhood -- Love and Death -- The Maiden Possessed -- False Male and Woman Rebbe? -- The Witch-hunt in Ludmir -- The Wedding and Its Aftermath -- In the Holy Land -- Conclusion: Tracing the Maiden -- Afterword: Journey to Ludmir. |
| Series Title: | S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. |
| Responsibility: | Nathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Bardach. |
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Abstract:
Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-nineteenth-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the three-hundred-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe in her own right. This title follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend.
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