UID:
almahu_9949702479002882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004428140
,
9789004428133
Series Statement:
Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 64
Content:
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.
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kabbalah in America: Ancient Lore in the New World, Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020 ISBN 9789004428133
Language:
English
