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Kabbalah in America
Ancient Lore in the New World
Series: - Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 64
Editor:
Kabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. Until recently, Kabbalah studies have not extensively covered America, despite Americaâs centrality in modern and contemporary formations. There exist scattered treatments, but no inclusive expositions. This volume most certainly fills the gap.
It is comprised of 21 articles in eight sections, including Kabbalah in Colonial America; Nineteenth-Century Western Esotericism; The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface; Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars; The Post-War Counterculture; Liberal American Denominationalism; Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism and the âOtherâ; and Contemporary American Ritual and Thought. This volume will be sure to set the tone for all future scholarship on American Kabbalah.
It is comprised of 21 articles in eight sections, including Kabbalah in Colonial America; Nineteenth-Century Western Esotericism; The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface; Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars; The Post-War Counterculture; Liberal American Denominationalism; Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism and the âOtherâ; and Contemporary American Ritual and Thought. This volume will be sure to set the tone for all future scholarship on American Kabbalah.
Brian Ogren, Ph.D. (2008), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the Anna Smith Fine Associate Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religion at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He has published two previous monographs and one prior edited volume.
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1 Introduction: On the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America
âBrian Ogren
2 âThey Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentilesâ: Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination
âMichael Hoberman
3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity
âBrian Ogren
4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emersonâs Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America
âClémence Boulouque
5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America
âBoaz Huss
6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
âVadim Putzu
7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in AmericaâMax Wolff, The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)
âPeter Lanchidi
8 Isidor Kalischâs Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy
âJonathan D. Sarna
9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America
âEliyahu Stern
10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism
âMoshe Idel
11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsbergâs Relation to Kabbalah
âYaakov Ariel
12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast
âPinchas Giller
13 Aryeh Kaplanâs Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy
âAlan Brill
14 American Reform Judaismâs Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weinerâs Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics
âDana Evan Kaplan
15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah
âDaniel Horwitz
16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism
âAriel Evan Mayse
17 âThe Lower Half of the Globeâ: Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbeâs Vision for Judaismâs American Era
âPhilip Wexler and Eli Rubin
18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutnerâs Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology
âElliot R. Wolfson
19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach
âJody Myers
20 Everything is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos
âMarla Segol
21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America
âRon Margolin
List of Contributors
1 Introduction: On the Formation of Research on Kabbalah in America
âBrian Ogren
Part 1: Kabbalah in Colonial America
2 âThey Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentilesâ: Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan Imagination
âMichael Hoberman
3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah: on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity
âBrian Ogren
Part 2: Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric Trends
4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emersonâs Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America
âClémence Boulouque
5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America
âBoaz Huss
6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
âVadim Putzu
Part 3: The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface
7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in AmericaâMax Wolff, The Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)
âPeter Lanchidi
8 Isidor Kalischâs Pioneering Translation of Sepher Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy
âJonathan D. Sarna
Part 4: Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars
9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America
âEliyahu Stern
10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism
âMoshe Idel
Part 5: The Post-War Counterculture
11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen Ginsbergâs Relation to Kabbalah
âYaakov Ariel
12 Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast
âPinchas Giller
13 Aryeh Kaplanâs Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy
âAlan Brill
Part 6: Liberal American Denominationalism
14 American Reform Judaismâs Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weinerâs Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics
âDana Evan Kaplan
15 American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah
âDaniel Horwitz
Part 7: Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism, and the âOtherâ
16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism
âAriel Evan Mayse
17 âThe Lower Half of the Globeâ: Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbeâs Vision for Judaismâs American Era
âPhilip Wexler and Eli Rubin
18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutnerâs Appropriation of Kabbalistic Anthropology
âElliot R. Wolfson
Part 8: Contemporary American Ritual and Thought
19 Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach
âJody Myers
20 Everything is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos
âMarla Segol
21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad, Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America
âRon Margolin
All interested in Kabbalah, American Studies, Jewish Thought, American Religious History, Jewish Studies and Western Esotericism. The volume is intended for specialists and nonspecialists alike.