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Subject: [ha-Safran]: Jacob's Ladder: Kabbalistic
Allegory in Russian Literature
Dear Friends,
Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the
publication of Marina Aptekman's newest title,
Jacob's Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature.
Jacob's Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature.
by Marina Aptekman
ISBN 978-1-934843-38-3
250 pp. cloth
$70.00
Publication Date: June, 2011
Focusing primarily on the close study of literary
works presented in the broad cultural and
historical context, Jacobs Ladderdiscusses 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 to
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.
Reviews:
"Marina Aptekman makes skillful use of rich and
diverse source materials, some new and others
interpreted in an original and innovative way.
This is an important and thought-provoking
contribution to the field of Russian-Jewish cultural relations."
Mikhail Krutikov, associate professor of Slavic
Languages and Literature, University of Michigan
This book is a fascinating study of a largely
unexplored subject--the role of Kabbalah in
Russian literature from the mid 17th to the 20th
century and the larger context in which
literature developed. Focusing on images and
allegories that derive, directly and indirectly,
from Kabbalah, Aptekman shows how and why lt
became an important element in mystical
freemasonry, romanticism, and modernism. In
addition, she limns the alternation between
mystical and magical (or occult) interpretations
of kabbalah and reveals how the occult
interpretation came to be associated with black
magic and, eventually, with the myth of a Judaeo-Masonic conspiracy.
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, professor of History, Fordham University
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