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Ariel Evan Mayse

Ariel Evan Mayse is an assistant professor the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the coeditor of the two-volume A New Hasidism: Roots and Branches (2019), and, together with Don Seeman and Daniel Reiser, he is the coeditor of the forthcoming Hasidism, Renewal and Suffering: The Religious Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro (SUNY Press).

The Alter Rebbe

Ariel Evan Mayse

In Immanuel Etkes's new biography, we meet the young Shneur Zalman shortly after the death of his master Rabbi Dov Ber Friedman, known as the Maggid (or preacher) of Mezheritch in 1772.