Kabbalah in America : : ancient lore in the new world / / edited by Brian Ogren.
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 an...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Jewish history and culture ; Volume 64 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Jewish history and culture ;
Volume 64. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: On the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America
- Brian Ogren
- Part 1: Kabbalah in Colonial America
- 2 “They Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentiles”: Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination
- Michael Hoberman
- 3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity
- Brian Ogren
- Part 2: Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric Trends
- 4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emerson’s Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America
- Clémence Boulouque
- 5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America
- Boaz Huss
- 6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist , and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
- Vadim Putzu
- Part 3: The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface
- 7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in America—Max Wolff, The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)
- Peter Lanchidi
- 8 Isidor Kalisch’s Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy
- Jonathan D. Sarna
- Part 4: Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars
- 9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America
- Eliyahu Stern
- 10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism
- Moshe Idel
- Part 5: The Post-War Counterculture
- 11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsberg’s Relation to Kabbalah
- Yaakov Ariel
- 12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast
- Pinchas Giller
- 13 Aryeh Kaplan’s Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy
- Alan Brill
- Part 6: Liberal American Denominationalism
- 14 American Reform Judaism’s Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weiner’s Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics
- Dana Evan Kaplan
- 15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah
- Daniel Horwitz
- Part 7: Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism, and the ‘Other’
- 16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism
- Ariel Evan Mayse
- 17 “The Lower Half of the Globe”: Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Vision for Judaism’s American Era
- Philip Wexler and Eli Rubin
- 18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner’s Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology
- Elliot R. Wolfson
- Part 8: Contemporary American Ritual and Thought
- 19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach
- Jody Myers
- 20 Everything is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos
- Marla Segol
- 21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America
- Ron Margolin.