Kabbalah in America: Ancient Lore in the New World

Contents
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
	Chapter 1 Introduction: on the Formation of Research on
Kabbalah in America
	Part 1
Kabbalah in Colonial America
		Chapter 2 “They Have with Faithfulnesse and Care Transmitted the Oracles of God unto us Gentiles”: Jewish Kabbalah and Text Study in the Puritan
Imagination
		Chapter 3 The Zohar in Early Protestant American Kabbalah:
on Ezra Stiles and the Case for Jewish-Christianity
	Part 2 Nineteenth-Century Western Esoteric
Trends
		Chapter 4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emerson’s Work: Tracing the
Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America
		Chapter 5 The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the
Kabbalah in America
		Chapter 6 Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist, and the Hermetic Brotherhood of
Luxor
	Part 3 The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Interface
		Chapter 7 A Kabbalistic Lithograph as a Populariser of Judaism in America—Max Wolff, Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews (New York, 1859)
		Chapter 8 Isidor Kalisch’s Pioneering Translation of Sepher
Yetsirah (1877) and Its Rosicrucian Legacy
	Part 4
Early Twentieth-Century Rational Scholars
		Chapter 9 Pragmatic Kabbalah: J.L. Sossnitz, Mordecai Kaplan and the Reconstruction of Mysticism and
Peoplehood in Early Twentieth-Century America
		Chapter 10 Solomon Schechter, Abraham J. Heschel, and
Alexander Altmann: Scholars on Jewish Mysticism
	Part 5 The Post-War Counterculture
		Chapter 11 Jewish Mysticism as a Universal Teaching: Allen
Ginsberg’s Relation to Kabbalah
		Chapter 12
Shlomo Carlebach on the West Coast
		Chapter 13 Aryeh Kaplan’s Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions
of Science, Psychology and Prophecy
	Part 6 Liberal American Denominationalism
		Chapter 14 American Reform Judaism’s Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah: the Contribution of Rabbi Herbert
Weiner’s Spiritual Search in 9½ Mystics
		Chapter 15
American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah
	Part 7 Ultra-Orthodoxy, American Hasidism,
and the ‘Other’
		Chapter 16 The Calf Awakens: Language, Zionism and Heresy
in Twentieth-Century American Hasidism
		Chapter 17 “The Lower Half of the Globe”: Kabbalah and Social Analysis in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Vision for
Judaism’s American Era
		Chapter 18 To Distinguish Israel and the Nations: E Pluribus Unum and Isaac Hutner’s Appropriation of
Kabbalistic Anthropology
	Part 8
Contemporary American Ritual and Thought
		Chapter 19
Kabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach
		Chapter 20 Everything Is Sex: Sacred Sexuality and Core Values
in the Contemporary American Kabbalistic Cosmos
		Chapter 21 Identity or Spirituality: the Resurgence of Habad,
Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America
	Index