In this Issue

Table of Contents

Cover Artist's Statement

Ruth Pinkenson Feldman
p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976453
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Introduction: Special Issue on the Hasidic Sermon

Glenn Dynner, Susannah Heschel, Ora Wiskind
p. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976454
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Reflections on Hasidic Derashot: Some Introductory Comments

Michael Fishbane
pp. 3-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976455
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The Cultural and Social Context of the Hasidic Sermon in Early Hasidism

Roee Goldschmidt
pp. 18-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976456
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Figuring Firmaments: Toward a Literary Structure of the Hasidic Homily

Elly Moseson
pp. 36-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976457
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Emotional Vocabularies in Hasidic Sermons: Divine Emotions and Human Moral Emotions in Hayim va-Hesed by Hayim of Amdur

Leore Sachs-Shmueli
pp. 57-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976458
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The Hasidic Sermon as an Impressionistic Work and Some Halachic Consequences

Aviezer Cohen
pp. 78-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976459
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Beyond Orality and Writing: The Timespace of Ḥasidic Homiletics

Elliot R. Wolfson
pp. 100-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976460
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Interpretation as a Way of Faith

Batya Hefter
pp. 126-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976461
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The Role of the Hasidic Sermon in the Formation of the Bratslav Textual Canon, 1850-1950

Alexandra Mandelbaum Kupeev
pp. 147-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976462
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The Dust of Our Dances Covered Us Like Clouds: Documenting a Revelatory Hasidic Moment

Aviv Luban
pp. 162-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976463
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A Hasidic "Council of All Beings": Ecology, Ethics, and Jewish Mysticism

Ariel Evan Mayse
pp. 198-231
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976464
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Ontological Uncertainties: Ṣimṣum and Science in the Oracular Hermeneutics of Chabad's Seventh Rebbe

Eli Rubin
pp. 232-254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976465
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Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Hasidic Harvest

Or N. Rose
pp. 255-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976466
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Joseph G. Weiss: Trailblazer in Hasidic Research

Zvi Leshem
pp. 289-311
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976467
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The Destruction of the House of Chernobyl: New Sources on Ukrainian Hasidism during the 1919–21 Pogroms

Glenn Dynner, Netta Ehrlich
pp. 312-350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976468
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Ten Days that Shook Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jonathan Karp
pp. 351-360
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2025.a976469
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