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The Baal Shem Tov and Hasidism
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A Light Out of Darkness
September 1, 2018 · 55 min · Episode page →
The institutions of the middle ages have already run their course, and the way ahead into modernity is far from clear for Polish Jewry. Out of this darkness...
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The Baal Shem Tov, the Hasidic movement he inspired, the opposition it provoked, and the courts it built across Eastern Europe.
Where this sits in the story
1 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
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