Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages) : illustrations |
Summary |
The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means of daring mystical interpretations of Scripture, entered a Paradise, representing different means of imaginative reading, perception, memory and application of the law. One of them died, one went mad, another became a heretic and the other came back as a traditional exegete and teacher. Based on that legend, this book examines a small group of late 19th and early 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams, |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Jews -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
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Jews -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Biography
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Religion: general.
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Literature & literary studies.
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Philosophy.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Jews.
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Europe.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781443878524 |
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1443878529 |
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