Musar movement in interwar Poland
TitoloThe Musar movement in interwar Poland
Autore
Call number943.8004924/0023
Numero oggetto03616n
Luogo di pubblicazioneHanover, New Hampshire, United States
Anno di pubblicazione
1989
Paginazionepp247-271
MaterialeArticle
SerieThe Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series; 10
ISBN0874514460
NotesArticle from the book 'The Jews of Poland between two world wars' pp247-271
Descrizione
This essay sketches the portrait of one orthodox religious current in interwar Poland, the Novaredok Musar movement. Focuses on the structure and scope of the Novaredok movement and on certain new developments in its religious ideology and practice during the interwar period. The yeshivah in Novaredok was founded by Rabbi Yosef Yoizl Hurwitz who had been converted to Musarism by its founding father Rabbi Israel Salanter