THE KABBALISTIC CULTURE OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PRAGUE : EZEKIEL LANDAU (THE 'NODA BIYEHUDAH') AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Portland, OR: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 20108. Hardcover. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in., pp. xii, [2], 26. Dark red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. One inch closed tear to top of dustjacket back. Protected in mylar. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Item #88117
Kabbalah, an esoteric lore whose study was traditionally restricted, played a surprisingly prominent and far-reaching role in eighteenth-century Prague. In this book Sharon Flatto uncovers the centrality of this mystical tradition for Prague’s influential Jewish community and its pre-eminent rabbinic authority, Ezekiel Landau, chief rabbi from 1754 to 1793... In telling this story, the study offers the first systematic overview of the eighteenth-century Jewish community of Prague, and the first critical account of Landau’s life and writings, which continue to shape Jewish law and rabbinic thought to this day. Extensively examining Landau's rabbinic corpus, as well as a variety of archival and published German, Yiddish, and Hebrew sources, it provides a unique glimpse into the spiritual and psychological world of eighteenth-century Prague Jewry. (from the publisher).
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