The kabbalistic culture of eighteenth-century Prague
Subtitle: Ezekiel Landau and his contemporaries
By: Sharon Flatto.
Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781904113393
Subjects: Judaism -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History; Cabala -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History; Mysticism -- Judaism -- History; Jews -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History; Prague (Czech Republic) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prague's Jewish community; title: Prague's rabbinic culture : halakhah and Kabbalah; title: Mystical and modernizing trends : Prague's rabbinic culture threatened; title: Historiography, personal history, and folk tales; title: The promotion of kabbalistic study, books, and customs; title: Tension; title: The Zohar and early mystical sources; title: The path to devekut: ecstatic and cordoverian teachings; title: Lurianic Kabbalah; title: Demons, the soul, and the afterlife; title: The banished consort : theurgy and the exiled Shekhinah.