Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought - Paperback
by Moshe Idel
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Availability:In StockContributor:Moshe IdelSeries:Jewish Culture and ContextsPublish date:2012-03-08Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812222104ISBN-10:812222105UPC:9780812222104Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:JudaismBook Topic:Kabbalah & Mysticism, HistorySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCHBDS2CD9
Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought
There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one set of religious beliefs. In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812222104ISBN-10:812222105UPC:9780812222104Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:JudaismBook Topic:Kabbalah & Mysticism, HistorySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCHBDS2CD9
Moshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is the winner of many awards and prizes, including the EMET Prize, given by the Prime Minister of Israel; the Israel Prize for Jewish Thought; the Gershom Scholem Prize for research in Kabbalah, given by the Israeli Academy for Sciences and...
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