These major essays of historical synthesis provide a probing and challenging overview of jewish history still pertinent to contemporary concerns.
The topics covered in this book are: (1)Toward Understanding the Messianic Idea in Judaism (2)The Messianic Idea in Kabbalism (3)The Crisis of Tradition in Jewish Messianism (4)Redemption Through Sin (5)The Crypto-Jewish Sect of Donmeh (Sabbatians) in Turkey (6)A Sabbatian Will from New York (7)The Neutralization of the Messianic Element in Early Hasidism (8)Devekut, or Communion with God (9)Martin Buber's Interpretation of Hasidism (10)The Tradition of Thirty-six Hidden Just Men (11)The Star of David: History of a Symbol (12)Revelation and Tradition as Religious Catergories in Judaism (13)The Science of Judaism - Then and Now (14)At the Completion of Buber's Translation of the Bible (15)On the 1930 Edition of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption (16)The Politics of Mysticism: Isaac Breuer's New Kuzari (17)The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovot
This book is a paperback, has 376 pages, and is published by Schocken Books of New York.
