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There Emerged In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries A New Jewish Elite, Notes Moshe Idel, No Longer Made Up Of Prophets, Priests, Kings, Or Rabbis But Of Intellectuals And Academicians Working In Secular Universities Or Writing For An Audience Not Defined By Any One Set Of Religious Beliefs. In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Idel Turns His Gaze On Figures As Diverse As Walter Benjamin And Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka And Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano And Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel And George Steiner To Reflect On Their Relationships To Judaism In A Cosmopolitan, Mostly European, Context. Idel-himself One Of The World's Most Eminent Scholars Of Jewish Mysticism-focuses In Particular On The Mystical Aspects Of His Subjects' Writings. Avoiding All Attempts To Discern Anything Like A Single Essence Of Judaism In Their Works, He Nevertheless Maintains A Sustained Effort To Illumine Especially The Kabbalistic And Hasidic Strains Of Thought These Figures Would Have Derived From Earlier Jewish Sources. Looming Large Throughout Is Gershom Scholem, The Thinker Who Played Such A Crucial Role In Establishing The Study Of Kabbalah As A Modern Academic Discipline And Whose Influence Pervade

Author

Idel, Moshe, 1947-

Publisher

Univ. of Pennsylvania Press [Verlag nicht ermittelbar

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812241303

Updated

2026-03-24