The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague : Ezekiel Landau (the 'Noda Biyehudah') and His Contemporaries.
A comprehensive portrayal of rabbinic culture in eighteenth-century Prague highlighting the surprising centrality of kabbalah in one of the main centres of European Jewry.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The
2015.
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| Series: | Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv13qfv3v |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text
- Introduction
- Part I: Jewish Culture in Eighteenth-Century Prague
- Chapter 1. Prague's Jewish Community
- Chapter 2. Prague's Rabbinic Culture: Halakhah and Kabbalah
- Chapter 3. Mystical and Modernizing Trends: Prague's Rabbinic Culture Threatened
- Part II: The Centrality of Kabbalah in Landau's Thought and Writings
- Introduction
- Chapter 4. Historiography, Personal History, and Folk Tales
- Chapter 5. Promotion of Kabbalistic Study, Books, and Customs
- Chapter 6. Tension
- Part III: Kabbalistic Schools in Landau's Works
- Introduction
- Chapter 7. Zohar and Early Mystical Sources
- Chapter 8. The Path to Devekut: Ecstatic and Cordoverian Teachings
- Chapter 9. Lurianic Kabbalah: Berur, Final Sparks, and the Mission of Exile
- Part IV: Key Kabbalistic Doctrines for Landau and Prague jews
- Introduction
- Chapter 10. Demons, the Soul, and the Afterlife
- Chapter 11. The Banished Consort: Theurgy and the Exiled Shekhinah
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index