Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Mediating Modernity
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2008) 185-194
Keywords:
Jews History 1600-1775
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Mysticism Judaism 17th century
;
History
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Mysticism Judaism 18th century
;
History
Abstract:
This essay argues that messianic hopes and mystical devotions played a larger role in the lives of colonial Jews than generally supposed. Mainly the Jews believed that the dispersion of Israel's remnants to the four corners of the world heralded the ingathering of the exiles; they looked forward to the messianic redemption.
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