| Description |
1 online resource (283 pages) |
| Series |
The Littman library of Jewish civilization |
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Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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| 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Judaism -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History
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Cabala -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History
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Mysticism -- Judaism -- History
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Jews -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History
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Mysticism -- Judaism
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Judaism
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Jews
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Cabala
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| SUBJECT |
Prague (Czech Republic) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004003776
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| Subject |
Czech Republic -- Prague
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781800345430 |
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1800345437 |
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