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Author Aptekman, Marina.

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

Imprint Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations
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Series Borderlines : Russian and East European-Jewish studies
Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and 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.
Contents Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Kabbalah Then and Now: a Historical Perspective -- A Quest For Moral Perfection: Kabbalistic Allegory in Eighteenth-Century Ðœasonic 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
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Subject Occultism -- Russia -- History.
Cabala in literature.
Cabala -- Influence.
Cabala -- History.
Russian literature -- Themes, motives.
Russian literature -- History and criticism.
Occultisme -- Russie -- Histoire.
Kabbale dans la littérature.
Kabbale -- Influence.
Kabbale -- Histoire.
Littérature russe -- Thèmes, motifs.
Littérature russe -- Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Cabala
Cabala -- Influence
Cabala in literature
Occultism
Russian literature
Russian literature -- Themes, motives
Russia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Anthologies.
Added Title Kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature
Other Form: Print version: Aptekman, Marina. Jacob's ladder. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011 (DLC) 2011456548
ISBN 9781618111159 (electronic bk.)
1618111159 (electronic bk.)
9781618116918 (electronic bk.)
1618116916 (electronic bk.)
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9781934843383
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DEBBG BV044094623
DEBSZ 421330864
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