The Habbad Movement in Czarist Russia 1828-1882

The Habbad Movement in Czarist Russia 1828-1882 (עדה ומדינה) examines the influence of Habbad on the many communities in North West Russia, and how the Movement attracted the attention of the government, on one side, and of the intellectuals, on the other side. The socio-historic analysis of the development of the Habbad Movement presented in the book allows us to examine the institutional dynamics of the Hassidic Movement and looks at what characterizes it as such a Charismatic Movement.
The book also examines the involvement of the Habbad Leadership in the government's initiatives of Reform in Czarist Russia in the middle of the Nineteenth Century and the tension which arose from these initiatives between the traditional Jewish community and the central power in Russia.