Tales of the Hasidim (v. 1-2)
by Martin Buber
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Author: Martin BuberEdition: Paperback
Audio: German (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1991-07-23
ISBN: 0805209956
Number of pages: 736
Publisher: Schocken
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Book Review: Literary, Not Historical, Merit
Summary: 4 Stars
In translating and publishing Hasidic tales in early twentieth century Germany, Buber was attempting to present Hasidism as an untapped repository of the authentic Ashkenazic Jewish folk legacy, a bulwark against secularism. His Hasidic leaders were folk heroes who had uplifted the downtrodden and revitalized Jewish culture. He hoped that his stylized renditions of Hasidic tales, which are much more gritty in their orignal forms, would spawn a Jewish national renaissance. When sifting through tale collections, he privileged episodes that portrayed their protagonists in revolt against the elite. His Tales of the Hasidim achieved such wide currency that their portrayal was for many years accepted as historical. While we can sympathize with Buber's mission to forge a modern Jewish culture out of what appeared to be authentic Jewish folkways, much in the way that the Grimm brothers employed fairytales, Buber's neo-romantic Hasidism is historically speaking, quite distorted. Recently, more realistic and ideologically neutral studies of Hasidism have appeared which seek to capture the movement's lived experience. See, for example, "Men of Silk", by Glenn Dynner or "The Regal Way", by David Assaf.
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