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24%OFFSamuel Heilman - The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson - 9780691154428 - V9780691154428
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The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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Description for The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson Paperback. From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson - revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe - built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. This title paints a portrait of Schneerson. Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: BGX; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 602.
From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change history. Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman paint an unforgettable portrait of Schneerson, showing how he reinvented himself from an aspiring French-trained electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic emissaries could transform ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691154428
SKU
V9780691154428
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-13

About Samuel Heilman
Samuel Heilman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Menachem Friedman is professor emeritus of sociology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Reviews for The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 Winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council "How do you write a biography of the Messiah? That is the question that Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman, two leading Jewish social scientists, have had to tackle in their groundbreaking study of Menachem Mendel Schneerson."
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