books.google.com - This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of the key...https://books.google.com/books/about/Founder_of_Hasidism.html?id=pNUd24tOSdQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFounder of Hasidism
