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Uriel Gellman

Sefer Hasidim: A Lost Anti-Hasidic Polemic

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM

The Ben-Zion Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History

“KUNTRESIM” – TEXTS AND STUDIES

97

Editorial Board

Emmanuel Etkes (Chairman), Israel Bratal, Michael Silber

Editor: Ruth Raveh

Uriel Gellman

Sefer Hasidim

A Lost Anti-Hasidic Polemic

The Zalman Shazar CenterThe Dinur Center for Researchfor Jewish Historyin Jewish History

Jerusalem 2007

ISBN 965–227–227–6

Catalogue No. 185–550

Printed in Israel, 2007

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