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Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: on the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America
Part 1 Kabbalah in Colonial America
Chapter 2 "They Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentiles": Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination
Chapter 3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity
Part 2 Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric Trends
Chapter 4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emerson's Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America
Chapter 5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America
Chapter 6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
Part 3 The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface
Chapter 7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in America-Max Wolff, Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)
Chapter 8 Isidor Kalisch's Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy
Part 4 Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars
Chapter 9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America
Chapter 10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism
Part 5 The Post-War Counterculture
Chapter 11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsberg's Relation to Kabbalah
Chapter 12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast
Chapter 13 Aryeh Kaplan's Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy
Part 6 Liberal American Denominationalism.
Chapter 14 American Reform Judaism's Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weiner's Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics
Chapter 15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah
Part 7 Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism, and the 'Other'
Chapter 16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism
Chapter 17 "The Lower Half of the Globe": Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Vision for Judaism's American Era
Chapter 18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner's Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology
Part 8 Contemporary American Ritual and Thought
Chapter 19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach
Chapter 20 Everything Is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos
Chapter 21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America
Index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: on the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America
Part 1 Kabbalah in Colonial America
Chapter 2 "They Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentiles": Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination
Chapter 3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity
Part 2 Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric Trends
Chapter 4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emerson's Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America
Chapter 5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America
Chapter 6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
Part 3 The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface
Chapter 7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in America-Max Wolff, Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)
Chapter 8 Isidor Kalisch's Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy
Part 4 Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars
Chapter 9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America
Chapter 10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism
Part 5 The Post-War Counterculture
Chapter 11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsberg's Relation to Kabbalah
Chapter 12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast
Chapter 13 Aryeh Kaplan's Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy
Part 6 Liberal American Denominationalism.
Chapter 14 American Reform Judaism's Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weiner's Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics
Chapter 15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah
Part 7 Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism, and the 'Other'
Chapter 16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism
Chapter 17 "The Lower Half of the Globe": Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Vision for Judaism's American Era
Chapter 18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner's Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology
Part 8 Contemporary American Ritual and Thought
Chapter 19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach
Chapter 20 Everything Is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos
Chapter 21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America
Index.