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Also Known As Hasidism • Chasidism • German Ḥasidism

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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.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic men in traditional attire dance and hold Torah scrolls during Simchat Torah celebrations in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem.
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Peabody, George
George Peabody
American merchant, financier, and philanthropist
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Polish rabbi
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Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
German rabbi
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Simon Markovich Dubnow
Russian historian
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Judah ben Samuel
German Jewish mystic
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Jacob Isaac ben Asher Przysucha
Polish Ḥasidic leader
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Jacob Joseph Of Polonnoye
Polish rabbi
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Elimelech Of Lizhensk
Jewish teacher and author