Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady's rise to leadership -- A leader of Hasidim -- Between center and periphery -- Sefer Shel Beinonim: the Book of Average Men -- On the front line against the mitnagdim: excommunications and prohibitions -- At the front versus the mitnagdim: the first imprisonment -- At the front against the mitnagdim: the second arrest -- Zaddikim as human beings: the conflict with Rabbi Abraham of Kalisk -- Between Napoleon and Alexander.
Summary
"The history of Hasidism and East European Jewry through the biography of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady"-- Provided by publisher.