R. Baruch Koidanover (d. 1871) was once in Lida where there were many mitnagdim. While he was there, they reported him [to the government]. During the reading of the Torah in the synagogue a tailor walked over to him and slapped him. Even the mitnagdim recounted afterward that the tailor’s daughter later died.
I.F.
M. Ivenski
Late Hasidism was perceived and presented in research as a movement of institutionalization and entrenchment that lost the initial Hasidic renaissance, and even degenerated. Recently there have been changes in research and more complex methods and approaches have been introduced that find characteristics unique to late Hasidim.
