Marcin Wodziński
Studia Judaica, Nr 1 (51), 2023, s. 243 - 268
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.23.010.18227The Earliest Maskilic Treatise on Hasidism: Josef Rosensohn’s Tractatus de Kabała
The article presents an unknown treatise written by a Vilna-based maskil and medical doctor, Josef Rosensohn (ca. 1774–1849). The newly discovered text, commissioned by a Polish aristocrat and Enlightenment activist Tadeusz Czacki (1765–1813), is the oldest maskilic treatise on Hasidism, written in either late 1804 or 1805, important not only for the history of the Haskalah, but also a significant source on the history of Hasidism and Jewish-Polish cultural relations. The article consists of two parts: (1) extensive introduction presenting the author, circumstances of the treatise creation, and significance of the source; (2) a thoroughly annotated treatise itself.
Marcin Wodziński
Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (38), 2016, s. 340 - 344
Marcin Wodziński
Studia Judaica, Nr 1 (37), 2016, s. 65 - 86
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.003.5349Marcin Wodziński
Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (46), 2020, s. 437 - 455
Żydowski naturalista potrzebny od zaraz! Steven Nadler, Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die, Princeton University Press, Princeton–Oxford 2020, ss. 234. (Adam Lipszyc)
Żydowski samorząd ziemski w Koronie (XVII–XVIII wiek). Źródła, oprac. Adam Kaźmierczyk i Przemysław Zarubin, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2019, ss. 679. (Marcin Wodziński)
Magda Sara Szwabowicz, Hebrajskie życie literackie w międzywojennej Polsce, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa 2019, ss. 422. (Anna Piątek)
Halina Hila Marcinkowska, Wieczni tułacze. Powojenna emigracja polskich Żydów, Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2019, ss. 424. (Ewa Węgrzyn)
Marcin Wodziński
Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, Volume 10, 2012, s. 111 - 122
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925SJ.12.005.0673
This article analyses the social structure and composition of Hasidic groups at the level of the community, i.e. the elementary social unit of the Hasidic movement. As it demonstrates, the emergence of such groups usually followed the pattern of several stages, beginning with splintering individuals escaping from the control of the kahal, followed by the establishment of a Hasidic prayer hall, known as a shtibl, by far the most important institution of Hasidism outside of the Hasidic court. The two most typical compositions of the Hasidic group centered around the shtibl were peer groups, usually dominated by young men, and interest groups. Most importantly, women were consistently excluded from any participation in the Hasidic group and its activities.
Marcin Wodziński
Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (40), 2017, s. 307 - 332
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.17.014.8249Marcin Wodziński
Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (46), 2020, s. 442 - 445
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.20.023.13666