Defining Neo-Hasidut: Then and Now
Shlomo Zuckier, Editor
Part I: Hasidic Thought in Mitnagdic Thinkers
1. Pahad Yitzhak and Its Sources: An Opening Inquiry
Yaakov Elman
2. Beyond the Ban: Rav Dessler’s Vision of a Yeshiva
Combining Lithuanian Lomdut, Chabad, and Polish Hasidut
Paul Franks
3. “Everyone Asks Where He Is”: Mystical-Hasidic Elements
in U-Vikkashtem mi-Sham
Alex Sztuden
Part II: Recent (Neo-)Hasidic Thinkers
4. The Development of Neo-Hasidism: Echoes and
Repercussions
Ariel Evan Mayse
5. Niggun as Spiritual Practice, with Special Focus on the
Writings of Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira, the Rebbe of
Piaseczna
Nehemia Polen
6. The Use of Hasidism in Responding to the Challenges of
Postmodernism and Technology: The Case of Rav Shagar
Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Part III: Sociology of Contemporary Neo-Hasidut
7. Post-Kookism and Neo-Hasidut
Shlomo Fischer
8. The Year in Israel Has Changed: Neo-Hasidut and
American Modern Orthodoxy
Yehuda Turetsky
9. Didan Notzach: Toward a Hasidic Modern Orthodoxy
David Landes
Part IV: Theological Perspectives on Neo-Hasidut
10. Om Shalom: East Meets West in the Jewish Spirituality
Renaissance
Yakov Nagen
11. Or Penimi: Why Penimiyut ha-Torah Might Help
Reinvigorate Our Synagogues
Zev Reichman
12. The Appeal of Neo-Hasidut in the Twenty-First Century
Reuven Boshnack
13. Hesitations Regarding Contemporary Neo-Hasidut
Yitzchak Blau