Yehudah Mirsky

Broschiertes Buch

Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity

The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904

Beschreibung

Jurist, mystic, poet, theologian, communal leader, and founder of the modern Chief Rabbinate, Avraham Yitzhaq Ha-Cohen Kook stands as a colossal figure of modern Jewish history and thought. This book traces his life and times in the remarkably intense Rabbinic intellectual milieu of late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe.

Autor

Yehudah Mirsky is Full Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. A former US State Department official, he has written widely on religion, politics, and culture for the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He won the Jewish Book Council's Sami Rohr Choice Award for his earlier work, Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 782g
• ISBN-13: 9781618119551
• ISBN-10: 1618119559
• Artikelnr.: 60360696