Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online
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Subject: Jewish Studies
Editor-in-Chief: Dan Diner
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From Europe to America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture covers the recent history of the Jews from 1750 until the 1950s.
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Mysticism
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Jewish mysticism refers to the esoteric-speculative ideas within Jewish tradition. Jewish mystical literature is divided into three major phases, the transitions between which are fluid: the pre-Kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the Middle Ages, Kabbalistic literature from the Middle Ages to the early modern age, and the Hasidic literature of the modern age. Mystic-messianic ideas to “restore the world” were formulated in different trends and periods within the Kabbalah. In the form …
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2021-07-13