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Glenn Dynner
Glenn Dynner is a professor and chair of religion at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent book is Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland (Oxford University Press).
Visualizing Hasidism
Everything contains sparks of the divine, the Ba’al Shem Tov and his disciples taught; therefore, everything—even material things—can be sanctified.
Brief Kvetches: Notes to a 19th-Century Miracle Worker
One day in the 1860s, a father burst into Rabbi Elijah Guttmacher's study house begging for help. His son's stomach was distended, and he was barking like a dog.
Untrue Blood
There was a common idea behind ritual murder and host desecration accusations: Jews were imagined to be re-enacting the crucifixion.