Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

October 4, 2018

Snuffboxes, Seder Plates, and Maps Lend a New Perspective on Hasidism

Kabbalistic art and a new atlas.

While their exotic dress may be their most salient characteristic to outsiders, hats, caftans, and stockings are far from the only religiously significant objects for Ḥasidim. In Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah, Batsheva Goldman-Ida explores a wide array of objects that have come to be invested with meaning, and often elaborate mystical symbolism, in ḥasidic thought and culture. Glenn Dynner writes in his review:

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