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Jacob's ladder : kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature / Marina Aptekman

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Aptekman, Marina
Published
Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.
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1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: Kabbalah Then and Now: a Historical Perspective""; ""A Quest For Moral Perfection: Kabbalistic Allegory in Eighteenth-Century Đœasonic Literature""; ""Knowledge Hidden In Letters: Alchemic Kabbalah and Russian Romantic Literature""; ""In the Beginning Was the Word: Magical Kabbalah, the Occult Revival, and the Linguistic Mysticism of the Silver Age""; ""Modernism and Kabbalah: Linguistic Mysticism in the Literary Doctrine of the Russian Silver Age""; ""Conclusion""; ""Selected Bibliography ""; ""Index""
Summary
Jacob's Ladder discusses the reflection of kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature and provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the perception of Kabbalah in Russian consciousness. Aptekman investigates the questions of when, how, and why Kabbalah has been used in Russian literary texts from Pre-Romanticism to Modernism and what particular role it played in the larger context of the Russian literary tradition. The correct understanding of this liaison helps the reader clarify many enigmatic images in Russian literary works of the last two centuries and to understand the roots of a particular cultural falsification that played an important role in the anti-Semitic mythology of the twentieth century.
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9781618111159 (electronic bk.)
1618111159 (electronic bk.)
9781618116918 (electronic bk.)
1618116916 (electronic bk.)
1934843385
9781934843383
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