ISBN:
9781800345430
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 268 Seiten)
Edition:
First published in paperback
Year of publication:
2015
Series Statement:
The Littman Library of Jewish civilization
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Flatto, Sharon The kabbalistic culture of eighteenth-century Prague
DDC:
296.1/6094371209033
Keywords:
Judaism History
;
Cabala History
;
Mysticism Judaism
;
History
;
Jews History
;
Prague (Czech Republic) History
;
Prag
;
Kabbala
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
;
Landau, Ezechiel 1713-1793
Abstract:
Prague's Jewish community -- Prague's rabbinic culture : halakhah and Kabbalah -- Mystical and modernizing trends : Prague's rabbinic culture threatened -- Historiography, personal history, and folk tales -- The promotion of kabbalistic study, books, and customs -- Tension -- The Zohar and early mystical sources -- The path to devekut: ecstatic and cordoverian teachings -- Lurianic Kabbalah -- Demons, the soul, and the afterlife -- The banished consort : theurgy and the exiled Shekhinah
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.3828/9781906764791
URL:
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