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The maiden of Ludmir : a Jewish holy woman and her world
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The maiden of Ludmir : a Jewish holy woman and her world

Author: Nathaniel Deutsch
Publisher: Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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 - or charismatic leader - in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The  Read more...
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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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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  Read more...

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schema:reviewBody""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 - or charismatic leader - in her own right. Nathaniel Deutsch follows the traces left by the Maiden in both history and legend to fully explore her fascinating story for the first time. The Maiden of Ludmir offers powerful insights into the Jewish mystical tradition, into the Maiden's place within it, and into the remarkable Jewish community of Ludmir. Her biography ultimately becomes a provocative meditation on the complex relationships between history and memory, Judaism and modernity."--BOOK JACKET."
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