New Jewish Books
Magdelene, a blog dedicated to “Prayers and Reflections: Spiritual Inspirations from many traditions” posted introduction and two very short stories (related to the Golem/Maharal) from Howard Schwartz‘s collection of Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales....
A few weeks ago a blog, titled Jewish Books, posted an overview of Richard Seidman‘s The Oracle of Kabbalah: Mystical Teachings of the Hebrew Letters (with a forward by Lawrence Kushner). Clicking on the...
The Oxford University Press just published Pinchas Giller‘s third book titled Shalom Shar’abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El. Giller is a popular professor at the American Jewish University (formerly University of Judaism). (I...
In 2005 Stanley Schneider and Joseph H. Berke published an article in Midstream, titled Discovering Oneself: Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis. Its summary at Amazon reads, Is this desire [or “burgeoning interest in mystical self introspection”]...
Last week a short interview with Joseph Dan was posted at the Oxford University Press’ blog. Dan is the author of many scholarly books on Kabbalah and is the Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah...
Stanford University Press started a grand project in 2003 to publish the Zohar in 12 volumes. Daniel Matt is translating the text and writing the extensive commentary. The fourth volume was published last fall....
Last summer’s issue of the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture has an indepth review of Joel Hecker’s Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah, “the first book-length study of mystical...
I have to admit I do not have much faith in this book, but it is new and out and might relate to Kabbalah, so feel obliged to mention it. I am talking about...
I more or less accidentally came upon this book as I was looking for something else, not even Kabbalah related. I didn’t find out much about it, as there is only one Amazon review...
