Literary Hasidism: The Life and Works of Michael Levi RodkinsonMichael Levi Rodkinson (1845 1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many transformations over the course of his life, most significantly from Hasidism to combative Haskalah to eventually anticipating the neo Romantic trends of the early twentieth century. Throughout his career,