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Chassidic Historiography: Tribute to Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Alfasi

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A tribute to Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Alfasi, a leading researcher of Chassidic history and author of the Encyclopedia of Chassidic Personalities.

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  1. 0:01Dudy Gabra with Jewish history sound bites and this is an episode about I guess the…
  2. 4:48a pen and paper." He didn't use a typewriter back in the day or a computer…
  3. 10:04all kinds of other writings, collections of stories, other documents and that was the main primary…
  4. 15:17primary sources to write the history of theidic movement I was using the internal sources of…
  5. 19:58had never left Eastern Europe. Um, so it was its heartland was Eastern Europe and here…
  6. 25:12didn't have access to archives in the Soviet Union for the most part with rare exceptions…
  7. 29:55allic research church up until the 1990s had been done on the 1700s and early 1800s…
  8. 34:31because the whole idea of a bal shem in Jewish history there are many balm was…
  9. 39:39completely changed the way we look at history of theidic movement [snorts] um from a social…
  10. 44:46it's like it's so all-encompassing and hundreds and hundreds of these personalities would have been completely…

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