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1 online resource |
| Series |
Brill's series in Jewish studies, 0926-2261 ; v. 59 |
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Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 59.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; Part 1 Manuscripts; Chapter 1 Hasidic Prayer Book; Continuity and Change; Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation); Avraham Abulafia: Permutations of God's Name; 'Iyyun Circle; Mantua Printing Houses; Ktav Malakhim (Angelic Writing); Hasidei Ashkenaz (Medieval German Pietists); Kaddish de'Rabbanan (Rabbi's Kaddish); Temple Menorah in Micrography; Early Precedents for Figurative Illustration; Significance; Mikveh (Ritual Bath); Sabbath Table; Hekhalot (Palaces); Cherubs of Keter (The Kedushah Prayer); Conclusion; Part 2 Ritual Objects |
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Chapter 2 Hasidic Wine CupContinuity and Change; Wine Cup; Hasidic Wine Cup; Models; Maggid's Epl-Becher; Bohush Epl-Becher; Boyan Safed Epl-Becher; Kopyczynce Epl-Becher; Stefanesçu Rose-Embossed Beaker; Significance; Shekhinah Speaking from the Throat of Man; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Hasidic Seder Plate; Continuity and Change; Seder Plate; Hasidic Seder Plate; Models; Chernobyl Seder Plate; Ruzhin and Sadigora Seder Plate; Peshkan Seder Plate; Bohush Seder Plate; An-sky Expedition Seder Plate; Influences; Objets de Fantaisie; Lubok Prints; Animal Figures; Significance; The Divine Chariot |
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Sacrificial Animals and the Image of JacobBeneath the Wings of the Shekhinah; Only for the Eyes of the Hasidic Master; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Hasidic Sabbath Lamp; Continuity and Change; Sabbath Lamp; Middle East and Asia; Central and Eastern Europe; Hasidic Sabbath Lamp; Models; Jerusalem Henglaykhter; Traveling Henglaykhter; Twenty-Six-Wick Henglaykhter; Significance; Configuration according to the Ilan ha'Gadol; Who Kindles the Henglaykhter?; Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament; Continuity and Change; Prayer Shawl Ornament; Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament; Models |
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Ruzhin and Sadigora AtaraHabad Atara; Other Hasidic Atara Designs; "Rikn-Atara" (Back Atara) of the Admor's Tallit; Shpanyer-Arbet; Technique; Sasów Shpanyer-Arbet Industry; Milieu of the Shpanyer-Arbet Workers; Influences; Significance; Conclusion; Part 3 Folk Art; Chapter 6 The Hasidic Pipe and Snuffbox; Continuity and Change; Early Uses of Tobacco; Smoking Among the Hasidic Masters; Models; Significance; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Hasidic Talismans; Continuity and Change; Early Amulets and Talismanic Coins; Pidyon ha'Nefesh (Redemption of the Soul); Hasidic Talismans; Models; Influence |
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SignificanceConclusion; Chapter 8 The Hasidic Rabbi's Chair; Continuity and Change; Hasidic Rabbi's Chair; Influences; Significance; Analysis of the Written Sources; Dream; Torah Sermon; Tale; King Solomon's Throne; Elijah's Chair and the Empty Chair of the Messiah; Conclusion; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Symbolism; Mythic Context; Hasidic Context; Worship through Corporeality; The Nature of Hasidism; New Directions in Research; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects, and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah. Examined at the delicate and difficult to define interface between seemingly simple, folk art and complex ideological and conceptual outlooks which contain deep, abstract symbols, the study touches on aspects of object history, intellectual history, the decorative arts, and the history of religion. Based on original texts, the focus of this volume is on the subjective experience of the user at the moment of ritual, applying tenets of process philosophy and literary theory - Wolfgang Iser, Gaston Bachelard, and Walter Benjamin - to the analysis of objects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Jewish art and symbolism.
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Hasidism.
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Cabala.
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Hasidism.
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Cabala
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Hasidism
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Jewish art and symbolism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017033741 |
| ISBN |
9789004290266 |
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9004290265 |
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