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Jacob's Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature

Jacob's Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature

Aptekman, Marina

Hardcover

Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies

Literary CriticismJudaismRussian History

ISBN10: 1934843385
ISBN13: 9781934843383
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Jun 1 2011
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Focusing primarily on the close study of literary works presented in the broad cultural and historical context, Jacob's Ladder discusses 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.

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