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446 pages • first pub 2025 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781503642072
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: exis...
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446 pages • first pub 2025 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781503642072
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: exis...