ISBN:
9789004428133
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 405 pages
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish History and Culture 64
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish history and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kabbalah in america
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kabbalah in America
DDC:
296.1/60973
Keywords:
Cabala History
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kabbala
;
USA
Abstract:
"Kabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. Until recently, Kabbalah studies have not extensively covered America, despite America's centrality in modern and contemporary formations. There exist scattered treatments, but no inclusive expositions. This volume most certainly fills the gap. It is comprised of 21 articles in eight sections, including Kabbalah in Colonial America; Nineteenth-Century Western Esotericism; The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface; Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars; The Post-War Counterculture; Liberal American Denominationalism; Ultra Orthodoxy, American Hasidism and the 'Other'; and Contemporary American Ritual and Thought. This volume will be sure to set the tone for all future scholarship on American Kabbalah"--
