Leadership in the Habad Movement: A Critical Evaluation of Habad Leadership, History, and Succession

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Summary: Personal Glorifcation
Review: Ehrlich seems to be another guy who has an aganda and is trying to make himself popular, while having no REAL TRUE insight into what go's on in the CHabad Movment.

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Summary: Interesting yet upsetting
Review: This was the kind of book that I enjoy reading but also feel uncomfortable while reading it. Avrum Ehrlich gives his readers a detailed history of Chabad leadership and each leaders struggles and achivements. However what I disliked about this book was Ehrlich's constant disaproval of hasidic sources claiming they are basically lies. He claims to have a purely scholarly viewpoint yet uses sources that are defectors from chabad that have a very anti-chabad view. Obviously anyone who considers any of the Chabad rebbe's as a powerful influence in their life will probabbly be disapointed in this work. It does however give a good solid history of leadership in the chabad movement. I just think there are some things in the book that go to far that only serve to cut down certain famous chabad personalities, while adding nothing to the history of the movement.