Gondos Kabbalah in Print

The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7973-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Demonstrates the impact of print culture on the spread of Jewish mysticism, focusing on Kabbalistic study guides by R. Yissakhar Baer of seventeenth-century Prague.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gondos, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Print Technology and Its Impact on Religious Consciousness

2. Cultural Agency and Printing in Early Modern Ashkenaz

3. Kabbalistic Abridgments and Their Cultural Impact

4. Zoharic Customs in a Halakhic Framework

5. Constructing a Zoharic Lexicon

6. The Plain Meaning of the Zohar: An Anthological Approach

7. The Influence of Kabbalistic Study Guides and Concluding Remarks

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Gondos is Emmy Noether Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the coeditor (with Daniel Maoz) of From Antiquity to the Postmodern World: Contemporary Jewish Studies in Canada.