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Dr. Henry Abramson
"Who was the Ba'al Shem Tov? Founder of Hasidism"
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Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein, and Anat Vaturi
“The Chosen Many: Population Growth and Jewish Childcare in Central-Eastern Europe, 1500-1930”
Tel Aviv University
https://sapir.tau.ac.il/sites/economy...

Glenn Dynner
Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society
https://amzn.to/3C7aT9g

Georg Albrecht Ludwig von Rantzau
Memoirs of the Count of Rantzau (French)
https://books.google.de/books?id=9gZc...

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