Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-28770-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 892 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects, and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah. Examined at the delicate and difficult to define interface between seemingly simple, folk art and complex ideological and conceptual outlooks which contain deep, abstract symbols, the study touches on aspects of object history, intellectual history, the decorative arts, and the history of religion. Based on original texts, the focus of this volume is on the subjective experience of the user at the moment of ritual, applying tenets of process philosophy and literary theory – Wolfgang Iser, Gaston Bachelard, and Walter Benjamin – to the analysis of objects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldman-Ida, Batsheva

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction

Part 1: Manuscripts

1 Hasidic Prayer Book
Continuity and Change
Significance
Conclusion

Part 2: Ritual Objects

2 Hasidic Wine Cup
Continuity and Change
Models
Significance
Conclusion

3 Hasidic Seder Plate
Continuity and Change
Models
Influences
Significance
Conclusion

4 Hasidic Sabbath Lamp
Continuity and Change
Models
Significance
Conclusion

5 The Hasidic Prayer Shawl Ornament
Continuity and Change
Models
Shpanyer-Arbet
Influences
Significance
Conclusion

Part 3: Folk Art

6 The Hasidic Pipe and Snuffbox
Continuity and Change
Models
Significance
Conclusion

7 Hasidic Talismans
Continuity and Change
Models
Influence
Significance
Conclusion

8 The Hasidic Rabbi’s Chair
Continuity and Change
Influences
Significance
Conclusion

9 Conclusion
Symbolism
Mythic Context
Hasidic Context
Worship through Corporeality
The Nature of Hasidism
New Directions in Research

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Batsheva Goldman-Ida, Ph.D. (2008), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Curator of Special Projects at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and specializes in visual culture, especially in the early modern period. Born in Boston, MA, she studied Decorative Arts in New York at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and Parsons School of Design. Her latest exhibition and catalogue Alchemy of Words: Abraham Abulafia, Dada, Lettrism (2016) juxtaposes the medieval mystic with early modern innovators of linguistic mysticism and contemporary performance artists.