Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the English Edition vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Origins in the Holy Land 19
6. Chapter 2. From Esoteric to Exoteric: European Kabbalists Transmitting Texts and Ideas in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century 65
7. Chapter 3. Christians Unveil the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 100
8. Chapter 4. Shabbateans and Anti-Shabbateans 143
9. Chapter 5. The Origins of Chassidism 180
10. Chapter 6. God’s Contraction in German Idealism and Romanticism 216
11. Chapter 7. The Haskalah and Wissenschaft des Judentums 252
12. Chapter 8. Zimzum in the Twentieth Century 278
13. Conclusion. The Anthropology of Zimzum 334
14. Appendix A. Sources on Zimzum: Texts, Art, and Music 351
15. Appendix B. Four Hundred Fifty Years of Zimzum Diffusion 354
16. Notes 357
17. Selected Bibliography 393
18. Index 405
19. Acknowledgments 411