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"David Assaf digs deep into a pile of scandals from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book's title promises tantalizing details that will remove the veil of righteousness from the pious. But this is no mere scandal sheet about a religious group that has jealously guarded nasty secrets from public scrutiny. It is a demanding exercise of historical study that exhaustively analyzes all the evidence surrounding some controversial episodes in an attempt to arrive at a balanced, if belated, truth. . . . History has rightly relegated the scandals Assaf analyzes to footnotes, notable exceptions on the margins of the Hasidic narrative. In Untold Tales of the Hasidim, Assaf corrects those footnotes and provides a lesson in the danger of historians with social or political agendas."-- "Commentary""Since the early years of the 20th century, Hasidim has been romanticized . . . and made to convey a profound message for modern readers. Similarly, for their own purposes, Hasidic leaders have made strenuous efforts to purify it of embarrassing incidents. Assaf, a critical scholar of Hasidism at Tel-Aviv Univ., has taken the opposite tack: his sober account, which first appeared in a Hebrew version in 2006, sets out to show a number of less appealing aspects of the movement and to reveal the self-censorship employed by the guardians of its traditions . . . Assaf reveals the various techniques by which these inconvenient truths were--and still are--erased from collective memory. Recommended."-- "Choice""Notwithstanding the bifurcated polemical reactions to its Hebrew original, Untold Tales is not an exercise in scoring points either against or for Hasidism. Rather, Assaf, who is careful not to generalize about [Hasidim] as a whole, brings to the fore a gallery of actual, flawed human beings caught between a demanding familial and religious tradition encompassing all aspects of life and the modern values of freedom and individuality. Of course, for most Jews today, the very notion of a binding turmoil has been rendered so obsolete that the agonizing inner turmoil of Assaf's Hasidim is more likely to arouse curiosity than empathy. But for orthodox Jews and others who retain a commitment to the transmission of past wisdom and religious commandment . . . the conflicts that beset this book are bound to resonate. As for those who still adhere to the principle that religious authority trumps intellectual honesty, Assaf's remarkable detective work suggests that, one way or another, cover-ups will eventually be uncovered."-- "Jewish Ideas Daily""A revised translation of a controversial work of history by a leading Israeli historian of Hasidism, this book looks at little-known or repressed events in Hasidic history in the 19th and early 20th centuries . . . Assaf masterfully explores how historical facts are guarded, repressed, or twisted by Hasidic guardians of traditions, mitnagdic and maskilic opponents as well as by modern historians; and how the winds of modernity touched the traditional Hasidic world in modern times. The book is an important addition to any academic library."-- "American Jewish Libraries"

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“David Assaf here uncovers some fascinating and little-known events in the tumultuous history of Hasidism. A fascinating peek into the ‘closet’ of what may still turn out to be modern Judaism's most important religious movement.” (Arthur Green, Rector, Rabbinical School, Hebrew College)“The book illuminates a series of little known dramatic episodes, tragic events, and anomalous figures in nineteenth to early twentieth century Hasidism, each representing a moment of crisis whose memory has been suppressed or obscured for apologetic reasons. The author has reconstructed them meticulously out of newly discovered or carefully assembled fragments of information, producing a historical narrative as compelling as a detective novel.” (Ada Rapoport-Albert, University College London)“This book presents case studies illustrating the difference between history and collective memory. By analyzing the historical events at the foundation of various hasidic traditions, Assaf enables the reader to understand how interested parties fashioned history into a remembered usable past. Reversing the dynamic, Assaf decisively removes the hasidic experience from the realm of folklore and hagiography, placing it firmly within the purview of history. Assaf’s hasidim lived in the real world as actual human beings rather than idealized saints. Their response to modernization ranged from repudiation, to hesitating rejection, defensive accommodation, de facto acquiescence, and even acceptance.” (Moshe Rosman, Bar Ilan University)

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Series: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry

Paperback: 360 pages

Publisher: Brandeis University Press; 1 edition (April 12, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1611681944

ISBN-13: 978-1611681949

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6.2 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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Professor David Assof's is often quoted in other scholarly works, particularly his detailed and documented treatment of the possible Labovicher apostate, Moshe Schneerson, son of the founder, Shneur Zalman of Liadi. That part of his book turns out to be the most interesting and balanced of the Hasidic stories he addresses. Reading the text and the footnotes, I came away with the impression that the true story of whether Moshe returned to Judaism will never be known, although the revisionist history and claims of Tsarist forgery of later Labavitcher followers is not credible The treatment of the "Seer" of Lubin's well known fall from his balacony on Simhut Torah comes next in interest but has less documentary support. One is left with the opinion that alcohol had a role in the fall and ultimate death of the Seer, but beyond that, not much else is certain. The treatment of other later Hasidic leaders was less crisp and left me turning pages faster than I normally do to get to some point. The one point that is clear is that Hasidism was not monolithic at the turn of the 20th century, if it ever was, and the pressures of modernity affected it as it did most of Eastern European Jewery. All in all, the book is a worthwhile addition to the Hasidic historical literature.

This is an arresting series of tales that demonstrate that hasidic rebbes are not just saints but real human beings with human flaws and lives worthy of examination. Hasidim will probably criticize Assaf as they have criticized Heilman & Friedman's book THE REBBE: THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON because it is not a hagiography but rather a clear-eyed view of complex leaders. But savvy readers will look at both books and see that there are views of hasidic leaders that are not simply stories of miracles and saintly behavior but true biographic social history.

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