The Rebbe

The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-691-15442-8
Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 597 g

From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change history. Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman paint an unforgettable portrait of Schneerson, showing how he reinvented himself from an aspiring French-trained electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic emissaries could transform the world. They reveal how his messianic convictions ripened and how he attempted to bring the ancient idea of a day of redemption onto the modern world's agenda. Heilman and Friedman also trace what happened after the Rebbe's death, by which time many of his followers had come to think of him as the Messiah himself. The Rebbe tracks Schneerson's remarkable life from his birth in Russia, to his student days in Berlin and Paris, to his rise to global renown in New York, where he developed and preached his powerful spiritual message from the group's gothic mansion in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This compelling book demonstrates how Schneerson's embrace of traditionalism and American-style modernity made him uniquely suited to his messianic mission.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heilman, Samuel

Friedman, Menachem

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Glaubensrichtungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi

The Rebbes of ChaBaD? xiii

Preface xv

Chapter 1: Farbrengen: The Gathering of the Emissaries 1

Chapter 2: Death and Resurrection 29

Chapter 3: Coming of Age in a Time of Transition 65

Chapter 4: E ntering the Court of Lubavitch 90

Chapter 5: From Survival to Uforatzto 130

Chapter 6: On a Mission from the Rebbe in Life 163

Chapter 7: From Resurrection to Death: We Want Moshiach Now 197

Chapter 8: On a Mission from the Rebbe in His Afterlife 248

Glossary of Hasidic and Lubavitcher Terms 279

Notes 283

Index 331

Über Autor(innen)

Heilman, Samuel
Samuel Heilman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Friedman, Menachem
Menachem Friedman is professor emeritus of sociology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Samuel Heilman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Menachem Friedman is professor emeritus of sociology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.