Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Inhalt v
3. Introduction 1
4. The Language of the Mystics in Medieval Germany 6
5. Between Magic and Religion – Ashkenazi Hasidic Piety 28
6. Prayer Gestures in German Hasidism 44
7. Metatron and Shi’ur Qomah in the Writings of Haside Ashkenaz 60
8. Images of Women in Sefer Hasidim 93
9. Social and Mystical Aspects of Sefer Hasidim 106
10. Rabbi Judah The Pious’ Will in Halakhic and Kabbalistic Literature 117
11. Rabbi Judah the Pious as a Legendary Figure 123
12. An Anonymous Kabbalistic Commentary on Shir ha-Yiẖud 139
13. Kabbalisten, Ketzer und Polemiker. Das kulturelle Umfeld des Sefer ha-Nizachon von Lipman Mühlhausen 155
14. The Maharal of Prague and the Kabbalah 172
15. Zauberei und Zauberer in der deutschen Literatur des 16. Jahrhunderts 181
16. Pico della Mirandola and the Beginnings of Christian Kabbala 195
17. A Profile of R. Naphtali Katz From Frankfurt and His Attitude Towards Sabbateanism 208
18. Rabbi Nathan Adler of Frankfurt and the Controversy Surrounding Him 223
19. Dr. Samuel Falk and the Eibeschuetz-Emden Controversy 243
20. The Mystical Visions of Rabbi Hyle Wechsler in the 19th Century 257
21. Meyer Heinrich Hirsch Landauer – Bible Scholar and Kabbalist 275
22. Kabbala-Rezeption in der Deutschen Romantik 295
23. Kabbala und Liebe. August Beckers Roman ‘Des Rabbi Vermächtniß’ (1866/67) 314
24. 333-334 333