Description
About the Author
Naftali Loewenthal is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, and the director of the Chabad Research Unit. He is the author of Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School (1990).
Reviews
'Chabad has become a global movement, powered by dedicated emissaries fuelled by a belief in the sacredness of their task and holy potential of every individual, whether Jew or Gentile. Dr Loewenthal masterfully links these ideals and the activism they inspire to their theological roots.'
Dr Harris Bor, The Jewish Chronicle
'Loewenthal has dug deep into the heart of Chabad's philosophy... his work is destined to be more than another dusty tome read only by a select cohort of colleagues in his field. Throughout the book, he maintains his humanity, a personal voice that compromises neither his objectivity nor his convictions. The observations of the scholar are considered side-by-side with the insights of school girls. There is no more moving testament to the challenge and the resilience of a postmodern movement; the prior categories exploded, the either/or thinking rejected, while the nucleus-present since the inception-is retained.'
Chana Silberstein, Lubavitch Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9781906764708
Author Naftali Loewenthal
Format Hardback
Page Count 456
Imprint The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Weight(grams) 368g