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Georges Vajda
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Director of Studies, École pratique des Hautes études (Institute for Advanced Research), Paris. Author of Recherches sur la philosophie et la Kabbale dans la pensée juive du Moyen-Âge and others.

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Hasidic Jewish men in traditional black coats and hats cross a street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with other Orthodox Jewish community members visible in the background.
Hasidism, movement within Judaism that emphasizes religious piety and was developed in eastern Europe in the 18th-century and continues to be an active branch of Judaism into the 21st century. The movement’s name is derived from the Hebrew term ḥasid (“pious one”), and the movement generally…
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