READ ATTACHED FILE AND ANSWER QUESTION
Read the introduction of Murray Jay Rosmans 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 Baal 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 authors proposed solutions.