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Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century.  The book considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age, often mystical vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism.

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Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century.  The book considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age, often mystical vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism.
Autorenporträt
BRIAN OGREN is the Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies and the chair of the Religion Department at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is the author of Kabbalah and the Founding of America, The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, and Renaissance and Rebirth.