R. Judah "he-Hasid" and the Rabbinic Scholars of Regensburg: Interactions, Influences, and Implications

Abstract

Scholars of Hasidei Ashkenaz during the last hundred years have paid little attention to sections 1592 and 1593 in the Parma edition of Sefer Haoidim (hereafter SH)} To my mind, however, these sections shed considerable light on several questions about the nature and role the German pietists that have been raised recently. After presenting analytical summary of these sections, I propose to locate them not within the larger context of SH but also more broadly within medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship and culture. (from Introduction).