Hasidic Judaism

READ ATTACHED FILE AND ANSWER QUESTION

Read the introduction of Murray Jay Rosman’s Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem TActions (Berkeley: University of California, 1996), then answer the following question:

The author suggests that the Ba’al Shem Tov “ represents a classic example of one of the most vexing problems in historiography: recovering the biography of a legendary leader” (p. 2). In a paragraph, please outline the reasons for these problems and the author’s proposed solutions.