Musar movement in interwar Poland

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