“chabad”

While not the first, Rubin’s book is among the very few that aim to address the history of the Chabad movement as a whole, placing its major figures in dialogue with one another. Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity does so not in a devotional or ahistorical manner, but by exploring the rebbes’ writings as conscious and strategic efforts to forge a distinct Lubavitch tradition, construct the legitimacy of their leadership, and respond to the complex challenges of modern times.

May 23, 2025

Yiddish has always been the oracular mainstay of Chabad's intellectual and spiritual trajectory.

Jan 28, 2019

This paper aims to complicate the neat chronology that bifurcates modern Jewish literature from its Hasidic roots, using Fishl Schneersohn's novel Khayim Gravitser and Avraham Shlonsky's Hebrew translation of the novel to demonstrate that these authors continued the Hasidic literary tradition of Chabad even as they embraced alternative literary forms in the cause of new aesthetic agendas.

Oct 09, 2018

An extract from Fishl Schneersohn's novel Chaim Gravitzer: The Tale of the Downfallen One From the World of Chabad.

Jul 03, 2018