A History of Kabbalah: From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Premodern and Modern Kabbalah: Breaks and Continuities
	Introduction
	The Autonomy of Modern Kabbalah
	Continuities: Exegesis, Gender, Theurgy and Magic
	Chains of Textual Continuity
	Comparative Reflections
	Conclusion: Kabbalah in Transition to Modernity
2 The Safedian Revolution of the Sixteenth Century
	Earlier Centers
	Karo and His Circle
	Cordovero and His Circle
	Luria and His Circle
	Safed in Europe
	Conclusion: Safed as a Mystical Culture
3 The Kabbalistic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
	Sabbateanism: Theology, Ideology and Sociology
	The Finalization and Triumph of the Safedian Canon
	Philosophical and Cultural Reception
	Critical Responses
	The Nationalization of Kabbalah
	Conclusion
4 Canonization: The Eighteenth Century
	Messianism and the Residual Presence of Sabbateanism
	Hasidism: Theology, Ideology and Sociology
	The Near Eastern Hegemony of R. Shalom Shar\'abi
	R. Eliyahu of Vilna and His School
	Lesser-Known Tributaries
	Eighteenth-Century Kabbalah as Split Canonization
5 Beginnings of Globalization: The Nineteenth Century
	Geopolitics and the Kabbalah: An Overview of the Century
	The Changing of the Guard in Hasidism
	The Moderation of the Vilna Gaon\'s School
	The Eastern European Immigrations to Ottoman Palestine
	Continuities and Diversities in the Near East
	Kabbalah, Globalization and Culture
	Kabbalah at the Turn of the Century
6 Destruction and Triumph: The Twentieth Century
	Overview
	The Kabbalah of the Land of Israel
	The Last Days of European Kabbalah
	The Modernization of Hasidism
	The New Centers of Kabbalah
	Kabbalah in Postwar Global Mysticism
	Kabbalah in the Early Twenty-First Century
	Conclusion
7 Recurrent Themes: Gender, Messianism and Experience?
	Some Shared Themes
	Three Periods of Kabbalistic Modernity
	Areas for Future Research
	Coda
Appendix: Timeline
Glossary
Bibliography
	Sources
	Studies
Index