A Fire Burns in Kotsk: A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland by Menashe Unger Yiddish Learning progressive

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These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism

By January 1943

But can one man alone stand up to the goblins

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A Fire Burns in Kotsk: A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland by Menashe Unger Yiddish Learning progressiveHalf a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger's A Fire Burns in Kotsk dramatizes this moment of division among Polish Hasidim in a historical account that reads like a novel, though the book was never billed as such. Originally