The kabbalistic culture of eighteenth-century Prague: Ezekiel Landau (the "Noda Biyehudah") and his contemporaries

Prague's Jewish community -- Prague's rabbinic culture : halakhah and Kabbalah -- Mystical and modernizing trends : Prague's rabbinic culture threatened -- Historiography, personal history, and folk tales -- The promotion of kabbalistic study, books, and customs -- Tension -- The Zoha...

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Main Author: Flatto, Sharon (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford [u.a.] The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 2010
In:Year: 2010
Reviews:[Rezenzion von: Sharon Flatto, The kabbalistic culture of eighteenth-century Prague. Ezekiel Landau (the ‘Noda Biyehudah’) and his contemporaries] (2012) (Greenblatt, Rachel L., 1968 -)
Series/Journal:Littman Library of Jewish civilization
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Prague / Cabala / History 1700-1800
B Landau, Ezechiel 1713-1793
Further subjects:B Jews (Czech Republic) (Prague) History
B Prague (Czech Republic) History
B Cabala (Czech Republic) (Prague) History
B Judaism (Czech Republic) (Prague) History
B Mysticism Judaism History
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:Prague's Jewish community -- Prague's rabbinic culture : halakhah and Kabbalah -- Mystical and modernizing trends : Prague's rabbinic culture threatened -- Historiography, personal history, and folk tales -- The promotion of kabbalistic study, books, and customs -- Tension -- The Zohar and early mystical sources -- The path to devekut: ecstatic and cordoverian teachings -- Lurianic Kabbalah -- Demons, the soul, and the afterlife -- The banished consort : theurgy and the exiled Shekhinah
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1904113397