Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide

Author:   Aubrey Glazer
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Edition:   annotated edition
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9781618113757


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide


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Mystical Vertigo immerses readers in the experience of the contemporary kabbalistic Hebrew poet, serving as a gateway into the poet's quest for mystical union known as devekut. This journey oscillates across subtle degrees of devekut-causing an entranced experience for the Hebrew poet, who is reaching but not reaching, hovering but not hovering, touching but not touching in a state of mystical vertigo. What makes this journey so remarkable is how deeply nestled it is within the hybrid cultural networks of Israel, crossing over boundaries of haredi, secular, national-religious, and agnostic beliefs among others. This volume makes a unique contribution to understanding and experiencing the mystical renaissance in Israel, through its multi-disciplinary focus on Hebrew poetry and its philosophical hermeneutics.

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Author:   Aubrey Glazer
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781618113757


ISBN 10:   1618113755
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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A fascinating exploration of the intersection of Jewish mysticism and contemporary Israeli poetry. In reading this challenging book, one is compelled to question the familiar distinctions between religious and secular, traditional and radical, ethereal and earthly. Highly original, erudite, and provocative. --Daniel C. Matt author of the multi-volume annotated translation of the Zohar (The Zohar: Pritzker Edition) Aubrey Glazer is a relentless spiritual seeker whose scholarship conveys a deep search for concealed links, surprising facts, unconventional interpretations and new perspectives, awake at all time for traces of the divine. In this book he explores contemporary Israeli culture, mostly poetry, reading into the Israeli experience as a poetic spiritual text. --Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed, Shalom Hartman Institute In an original post-modern voice, Aubrey Glazer captures the mystical yearnings that pulse within contemporary Israeli poetry. Glazer reveals the longing for devekut and intimate transcendence that shines through and reimagines this new lyric landscape, both absorbing and re-visioning the older mystical tradition. --Eitan Fishbane, The Jewish Theological Seminary


Aubrey Glazer is a relentless spiritual seeker whose scholarship conveys a deep search for concealed links, surprising facts, unconventional interpretations and new perspectives, awake at all time for traces of the divine. In this book he explores contemporary Israeli culture, mostly poetry, reading into the Israeli experience as a poetic spiritual text. --Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed, Shalom Hartman Institute A fascinating exploration of the intersection of Jewish mysticism and contemporary Israeli poetry. In reading this challenging book, one is compelled to question the familiar distinctions between religious and secular, traditional and radical, ethereal and earthly. Highly original, erudite, and provocative. --Daniel C. Matt author of the multi-volume annotated translation of the Zohar (The Zohar: Pritzker Edition) In an original post-modern voice, Aubrey Glazer captures the mystical yearnings that pulse within contemporary Israeli poetry. Glazer reveals the longing for devekut and intimate transcendence that shines through and reimagines this new lyric landscape, both absorbing and re-visioning the older mystical tradition. --Eitan Fishbane, The Jewish Theological Seminary


A fascinating exploration of the intersection of Jewish mysticism and contemporary Israeli poetry. In reading this challenging book, one is compelled to question the familiar distinctions between religious and secular, traditional and radical, ethereal and earthly. Highly original, erudite, and provocative. --Daniel C. Matt author of the multi-volume annotated translation of the Zohar (The Zohar: Pritzker Edition)


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Aubrey L. Glazer (PhD University of Toronto) is an independent scholar and a rabbi at the Jewish Community Center of Harrison, New York. His book Contemporary Hebrew Mystical Poetry: How it Redeems Jewish Thinking (2009) has been awarded the Adele Mellen Prize for its distinguished contribution to scholarship. His most recent book is A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought ( 2011).

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