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Jacob's ladder : kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature / Marina Aptekman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aptekman, Marina.
- Series:
- Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
- Borderlines : Russian and East European-Jewish studies.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Occultism--Russia--History.
- Occultism.
- Cabala in literature.
- Cabala--Influence.
- Cabala.
- Cabala--History.
- Russian literature--Themes, motives.
- Russian literature.
- Russian literature--History and criticism.
- Anthologies.
- Genre:
- Anthologies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing primarily on the close study of literary works presented in the broad cultural and historical context, 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 to 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Kabbalah Then and Now: a Historical Perspective
- A Quest for Moral Perfection: Kabbalistic Allegory in Eighteenth-Century Мasonic 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 04 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9781618116918
- 1618116916
- 9781618111159
- 1618111159
- OCLC:
- 1135585774
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