We have heeded Dubnow’s call for work on the later movement even as we depart from his narrative of decline. We argue instead that Hasidism of this later period was entering its first golden age (the second began in the last decades of the twentieth century).
More of their argument: departing from Dubnow's narrative of decline and say that the later period was its first golden age (after Dov Ber, etc, 19th century) and a second was 20th century.
