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The comparatively modern Chassidism, anticipating Mazzini, teaches that every nation and language has a special channel through which it receives God's gifts.

From Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Zangwill, Israel

Chassidism replaced Talmudic ratiocination by exalted religious sentiment.

From Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history by Dubnow, S. M. (Simon Markovich)

The bulwark of Rabbinism and the citadel of Chassidism protected them against alien influences.

From Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history by Dubnow, S. M. (Simon Markovich)

His investigations into the history of the Polish-Russian Jews, especially his achievements in the history of Chassidism, have been of fundamental importance in these departments.

From Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history by Dubnow, S. M. (Simon Markovich)

Chassidism and its necessary dependence upon the Zaddik offered the masses the means of this forgetfulness of self through faith.

From Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history by Dubnow, S. M. (Simon Markovich)