...This chapter studies the role that Hasidism played in the thought of the modernized Jewish intelligentsia of Eastern Europe toward the end of the 19th century. Simon Dubnow played a pivotal role in the emergence of this new image of Hasidism. In his autobiography, Dubnow describes in some detail...

... acceptance throughout eastern Europe, and the persistence of this process despite the vehement opposition encountered by the new movement. The most influential attempts to answer this question have been those of Simon Dubnow, Benzion Dinur, and Raphael Mahler. All three historians sought to explain...

...This chapter talks about Simon Dubnow, who is considered the father of east European Jewish historical writing and known to be deeply committed to his children's education. It cites textbooks that Dubnow wrote for modern Jewish schools. It also explores Dubnow's crucially important History...

...This chapter discusses Ashkenazic Jewry and catastrophe. When Simon Dubnow was invited to contribute to the first volume of the Yiddish-language Historishe shriftn (1929), he submitted a piece on the 18th-century Jewish catastrophe in Uman. The article, an essay accompanying two...

...This chapter reviews A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnow, which was edited by Kristi Groberg and Avraham Greenbaum. The most useful cluster of essays in this volume is the trio on Dubnow and the pogroms. Michael Hamm, Shlomo Lambroza, and John Klier show...

... mentions the classic history of Hasidism by Simon Dubnow that appeared in both Hebrew and German editions in 1931. The chapter analyses Dubnow's book, which proposed a construction of hasidic history that still influences both academic and popular notions of how Hasidism arose and developed. It talks about...