Academic study
The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov (Abraham J. Heschel)
The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism
Essays on the Besht's companions (Pinhas of Korets, Gershon of Kuty, Nahman of Horodenka and others) originally written in Hebrew and Yiddish by Heschel, himself a descendant of Hasidic dynasties. They reconstruct the founder's human milieu from little-known sources.
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Authorship note
Studies by Abraham Joshua Heschel edited posthumously by Samuel H. Dresner; not a work by the Besht.
Editions and translations
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English
The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism
University of Chicago Press, 1985
ISBN 9780226329604
Ed. Samuel H. Dresner.
Other works by Baal Shem Tov
- Igeret ha-Kodesh (Letter to Abraham Gershon of Kuty) · 1750
- Tsava'at ha-Rivash (The Testament of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem) · 1793
- Keter Shem Tov (Crown of the Good Name) · 1794
- Shivhei ha-Besht (In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov) · 1815
- Toledot Ya'akov Yosef · 1780
- Ben Porat Yosef · 1781
- Tsafnat Pa'neah · 1782
- Ketonet Passim · 1866
- Likkutim Yekarim (Precious Gleanings) · 1792
- Degel Mahaneh Efrayim · 1810
- Sefer Baal Shem Tov (The Book of the Baal Shem Tov) · 1938
- Kabbalistic commentary on Psalm 107 (attributed) · 1804
- Letters of the "Kherson genizah" (spurious) · 1918
- Founder of Hasidism (Moshe Rosman) · 1996
- The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader (Immanuel Etkes) · 2000
Sources
- Biale, David; Assaf, David; Brown, Benjamin; Gellman, Uriel; Heilman, Samuel C.; Rosman, Moshe; Sagiv, Gadi; Wodziński, Marcin. Hasidism: A New History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
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