Holy dissent : Jewish and Christian mystics in Eastern Europe /
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| Imprint: | Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2011. |
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| Description: | ix, 406 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8541515 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. Jewish Mystics in a Christian World
- "You Will Find It in the Pharmacy": Practical Kabbalah and Natural Medicine in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1690-1750
- ShvarLze khasene: Black Weddings among Polish Jews
- R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov "In the State of Walachia": Widening the Besht's Cultural Panorama
- Hasidism and Habitat: Managing the Jewish-Christian Encounter in the Kingdom of Poland
- The Rise and Decline of a Hasidic Court: The Case of Rabbi Duvid Twersky of Tal'noye
- II. Christianizing Jews, Judaizing Christians
- Immanuel Frommann's Commentary on Luke and the Christianizing of Kabbalah: Some Sabbatean and Hasidic Affinities
- The Peril of Heresy, the Birth of a New Faith: The Quest for a Common Jewish-Christian Front against Frankism
- From Poland to London: Sabbatean Influences on the Mystical Underworld of Zinzendorf, Swedenborg, and Blake
- Me'ayin yavo 'ezri?: The Help of Jacob Frank and His Daughter, Ewa
- Judaism and Jewish Influences in Russian Spiritual Christianity: The Practices of the Early Dukhobors and the Prophecies of Maksim Rudometkin
- In Search of the Millennium: The Convergence of Jews and Ukrainian Evangelical Peasants in Late Imperial Russia
- The Religious World of Russian Sabbatarians (Subbotniks)
- Contributors
- Index
