Thirty years ago, the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College London (UCL) hosted an international conference in memory of its former director, Joseph G. Weiss, who had been an important scholar of Hasidism – the Jewish religious movement that began in Poland in the eighteenth century and quickly came to dominate significant segments of …
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Inevitable Historicity 