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Hasidic Rabbi’s chair

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Decorated chair dedicated to a Hasidic rabbi.

Video

Seated in Seclusion: with Sharon Weiser-Ferguson and Eran Lederman

Translations

  • Hebrewכסא רב חסידי
  • GermanStuhl für chassidischen Rabbiner
  • RussianКресло хасидского ребе
  • FrenchFauteuil d’un rabbin hassidique
  • DutchStoel voor een chassidische rabbijn
  • ItalianSedia per un rabbino chassidico
  • CzechRabínské křeslo
  • HungarianHaszid rabbiszék
  • SpanishSillón de rabino jasídico
  • GreekΚαρέκλα του χασιδικού ραββίνου
  • PolishKrzesło chasydzkiego rabina
  • Arabicكرسي حاخام حسيدي
  • Yiddishשטול פֿאַר רבי
  • LadinoSiya de rabino de hasidim

Bibliography

Efron, Zusia. “A Chair in Jerusalem.” Ariel, vol. 27, 1970, pp. 55-8.

Goldman-Ida, Batsheva. “The Birthing Chair: The Chair of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav: A Phenomenological Analysis.Ars Judaica, vol. 6, 2010, pp. 115-32.

Goldman-Ida, Batsheva. “The Chair of Rabbi Nahman.” Be-ʻIḳvot ha-Beshṭ: Matayim Ve-Hamishim Shanah Le-Moto shel Ha-Beshṭ, Matayim Shanah Le-Mot R. Naḥman mi-Breslav [In the Footsteps of the Besht], ed. Esther Liebes, Jerusalem: The National Library of Israel, 2010, pp. 31-44.

Goldman-Ida, Batsheva. “The Hasidic Code: The Hidden Significance of Hasidic Art.” Be-ʻIḳvot ha-Beshṭ: Matayim Ve-Hamishim Shanah Le-Moto shel Ha-Beshṭ, Matayim Shanah Le-Mot R. Naḥman mi-Breslav: [In the Footsteps of the Besht], ed. Esther Liebes, Jerusalem: The National Library of Israel, 2010, pp. 42-4.

Goldman-Ida, Batsheva. “The Hasidic Rabbi’s Chair.” Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah, Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies vol, 59, Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 345-76.

Goldman-Ida, Batsheva. ‘’The Chair of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.’’ Seated in Seclusion, Bratslav Hasidim and Contemporary Design, ed. Eran Lederman and Sharon Weiser-Ferguson, Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2020, pp. 125-26 and 145-44.

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