Kabbalah in America: ancient lore in the New World

"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 i...

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Published in:Studies in Jewish history and culture
Contributors: Ogren, Brian (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2020]
In: Studies in Jewish history and culture (volume 64)
Series/Journal:Studies in Jewish history and culture volume 64
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cabala / USA
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Cabala History
B Jews (United States) Intellectual life
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Summary:"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"--
ISBN:9004428143
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004428140