Glåma
Glåma or Glomma , longest river of Norway, c.365 mi (590 km) long, rising in the highlands of Sør-Trøndelag co., SE Norway. It flows generally S past Sarpsborg (the head of navigation), into the Skagerrak at Fredrikstad. The Vorma River, which drains Mjøsa Lake, is its chief tributary. The Glåma's numerous waterfalls are the sites of hydroelectric stations; the lower river furnishes power to the urban industrial complex between Sarpsborg and Fredrikstad. The Glåma, passing through a heavily forested region, is Norway's chief timber-floating river.
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Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism, by Shaul Magid. Madison: University...most important figure in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism after Mordecai Joseph. He was a prolific...
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Hasidism Reappraised.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Ada Rapoport-Albert, ed. Hasidism Reappraised. London: The Littman...s Introduction to the volume, Hasidism is a movement of Jewish spiritual...secularization. Up to these days, Hasidism is still--in Israel, the US and...
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The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited...the Kotzker Rebbe in the course on Hasidism in 1972. The Circle of the Baal...contains Heschel's four essays on Hasidism originally written in Hebrew in...
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Realize the Divine - Hippie Hasidism in New York.(music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach creates eclectic branch of Hasidism)
Magazine article from: World and I; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...with the traditional religious tunes of Hasidism in both religious and casual songs...Shlomo) began his eclectic branch of Hasidism, the ecstatic Judaism associated with...specifically with his practices. (In Hasidism, devotees often follow charismatic leaders...
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Writing about Hasidism without living it
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/9/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Abraham, 44, may have broken away from Hasidism, but she insists she has not rejected...13th-century Spain upon which much of Hasidism is based.The book is set in Monsey...great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, Hasidism's founder. Nachman tried to rejuvenate...
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Wiesel's Boston U. lecture explores roots of Hasidism, hatred
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/2/2000; ; 545 words
; ...Metcalf Hall, focusing on the origin of Hasidism and the plight of its founder. As part...Tuesday night's talk, entitled "In Hasidism: Rebbe Shneur-Zalman, the Founder...centered around the struggle to form Hasidism and how anti-Semitism still manifests...
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An Inside Look at `Hasidism in America'.(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 10/31/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...POLITE APPLAUSE) A LIFE APART: Hasidism in America: Documentary. Directed by...Europe -- is amazing. "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America," now playing at the Opera...their culture and gives the critics of Hasidism, who see it as sexist, rigid and spiritually...
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THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF HASIDISM.(Review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 8/1/1999; ; 555 words
; THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF HASIDISM. By NORMAN LAMM. KTAV. 624 pp. $49.50. Since Hasidism presents such a spiritually appealing form...attractive format. Unlike apologetic works about Hasidism, the book lets the hasidic thinkers speak...
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'Life' sheds some light on lives of Hasidic Jews; "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America." Not Rated. At the Coolidge Corner Theatre Two and a half stars.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 12/5/1997; ; 625 words
; ...narrow perspective, "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America" is often an eye-opening...of the Orthodox-Jewish tradition of Hasidism and a peek at contemporary believers...interesting is in the relationship between Hasidism and America. Hasidim did not exist in...
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Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 10/13/1995; ; 700+ words
; Robert L. Wolkoff Jewish Exponent 10-13-1995 Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic. By Moshe Idel, State University...experience, in its most intense and extreme forms, as much as Hasidism." Idel argues that the immediate historical precedents...
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Hasidism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hasidism or Chassidism [Heb.,=the pious...Tov . Its name derives from Hasidim . Hasidism, which stressed the mercy of God and...pronounced the movement heretical. Hasidism shows the influence of the Lurianic kabbalah...
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Martin Buber
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...influential journal Der Jude. Relevance of Hasidism Buber's explorations into Hasidism, the result of his resolve to become better...had become isolated and fossilzed. Original Hasidism was a deeply joyous, world-affirming mysticism...
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Baal Shem Tov
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...religious leader The founder of modern Hasidism was the Polish-born Israel ben Eliezer...sayings and teachings. The Besht and the Hasidism had, and continue to have, a notable...Collection of Legends about the Founder of Hasidism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press...
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Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...of the Jewish mystical movement called Hasidism that swept through Europe during the...around the zaddikim, or holy leaders, of Hasidism, who were credited with miracles and spiritual insight. Hasidism had, and continues to have, a notable...
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Judaism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...brought across by German immigrants in the 19th century. Hasidism (from Hebrew, ‘pious’) is a mystical...that first found expression in 12th-century Germany. Modern Hasidism evolved in 18th-century Poland, where its leader, Ba...
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