Musar movement in interwar Poland
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The Musar movement in interwar Poland
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number943.8004924/0023
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]03616n
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]University Press of New England, Brandeis University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1989
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp247-271
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series; 10
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0874514460
NotesArticle from the book 'The Jews of Poland between two world wars' pp247-271
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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