Isaak Markus Jost’s last Discussion of Kabbalah (1859)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Lazarus Ben David, Peter Beer and Isaak Markus Jost (1822–1832) 26
6. Leopold Zunz and Moritz Freystadt (1818–1832) 36
7. The Young Abraham Geiger (1840) 47
8. Meier Hirsch Landauer and Abraham Adler (1838–1845) 60
9. Michael Sachs and David Joel [1845–1849] 79
10. Moritz Steinschneider (1850) 94
11. Adolf Jellinek (1851–1852) 100
12. First Reactions to Jellinek 116
13. Adolf Jellinek [1853–1854] 125
14. The Mature Abraham Geiger (1853–1856) 130
15. Ignaz Stern’s Study on the Composition of the Zohar (1858) 139
16. Isaak Markus Jost’s last Discussion of Kabbalah (1859) 148
17. Heinrich Graetz’s Study of Early Mystical Literature (1859) 156
18. The Seventh Volume of Graetz’s History of the Jews (1863) 160
19. Leopold Loew’s Review of Graetz’s Discussion of the Zohar (1863) 177
20. Graetz’s Account of Kabbalah during the 15th to the 18th century (1864–68) 190
21. Abraham Geiger’s Last Word on Kabbalah (1871) 212
22. Ludwig Philippson and Leopold Stein (1864– 1877) 223
23. Kabbalah in Jewish Textbooks 236
24. Epilog – the Years 1894–1907 255
25. Bibliography 264
26. Index 270