Kabbalah in America: Ancient Lore in the New World (Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 64)

Book info: Kabbalah in America: Ancient Lore in the New World (Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 64) (Hardcover, 424 pages) – Brill, 2020. Language: English.

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 America’s 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 ‘Other’; and Contemporary American Ritual and Thought. This volume will be sure to set the tone for all future scholarship on American Kabbalah. Editorial Reviews About the Author 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.