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Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldman-Ida, Batsheva.
- Series:
- Brill's Series in Jewish Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish art and symbolism.
- Hasidism.
- Cabala.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (488 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : BRILL, 2017.
- Summary:
- Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part 1 Manuscripts
- Chapter 1 Hasidic Prayer Book
- Continuity and Change
- Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation)
- Avraham Abulafia: Permutations of God's Name
- 'Iyyun Circle
- Mantua Printing Houses
- Ktav Malakhim (Angelic Writing)
- Hasidei Ashkenaz (Medieval German Pietists)
- Kaddish de'Rabbanan (Rabbi's Kaddish)
- Temple Menorah in Micrography
- Early Precedents for Figurative Illustration
- Significance
- Mikveh (Ritual Bath)
- Sabbath Table
- Hekhalot (Palaces)
- Cherubs of Keter (The Kedushah Prayer)
- Conclusion
- Part 2 Ritual Objects
- Chapter 2 Hasidic Wine Cup
- Wine Cup
- Hasidic Wine Cup
- Models
- Maggid's Epl-Becher
- Bohush Epl-Becher
- Boyan Safed Epl-Becher
- Kopyczynce Epl-Becher
- Stefanesçu Rose-Embossed Beaker
- Shekhinah Speaking from the Throat of Man
- Chapter 3 Hasidic Seder Plate
- Seder Plate
- Hasidic Seder Plate
- Chernobyl Seder Plate
- Ruzhin and Sadigora Seder Plate
- Peshkan Seder Plate
- Bohush Seder Plate
- An-sky Expedition Seder Plate
- Influences
- Objets de Fantaisie
- Lubok Prints
- Animal Figures
- The Divine Chariot
- Sacrificial Animals and the Image of Jacob
- Beneath the Wings of the Shekhinah
- Only for the Eyes of the Hasidic Master
- Chapter 4 Hasidic Sabbath Lamp
- Sabbath Lamp
- Middle East and Asia
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Hasidic Sabbath Lamp
- Jerusalem Henglaykhter
- Traveling Henglaykhter
- Twenty-Six-Wick Henglaykhter
- Configuration according to the Ilan ha'Gadol
- Who Kindles the Henglaykhter?
- Chapter 5 The Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament
- Continuity and Change.
- Prayer Shawl Ornament
- Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament
- Ruzhin and Sadigora Atara
- Habad Atara
- Other Hasidic Atara Designs
- "Rikn-Atara" (Back Atara) of the Admor's Tallit
- Shpanyer-Arbet
- Technique
- Sasów Shpanyer-Arbet Industry
- Milieu of the Shpanyer-Arbet Workers
- Part 3 Folk Art
- Chapter 6 The Hasidic Pipe and Snuffbox
- Early Uses of Tobacco
- Smoking Among the Hasidic Masters
- Chapter 7 Hasidic Talismans
- Early Amulets and Talismanic Coins
- Pidyon ha'Nefesh (Redemption of the Soul)
- Hasidic Talismans
- Influence
- Chapter 8 The Hasidic Rabbi's Chair
- Hasidic Rabbi's Chair
- Analysis of the Written Sources
- Dream
- Torah Sermon
- Tale
- King Solomon's Throne
- Elijah's Chair and the Empty Chair of the Messiah
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- Symbolism
- Mythic Context
- Hasidic Context
- Worship through Corporeality
- The Nature of Hasidism
- New Directions in Research
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 1015882520
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