TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kessler, Samuel J.
T1  - Rediscovering the Study of Spanish Kabbalism in Wissenschaft des Judentums
BT  - Adolf Jellinek in Leipzig, 1842–1856
JF  - PaRDES : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V.
N2  - This article examines the works of Adolf Jellinek (1821–1893) on the history of mysticism and the Kabbalah, which were written during his fourteen-year residence in Leipzig. It argues that studying the Spanish Kabbalists allowed Jellinek to work through ideas concerning the development of Jewish theology and the interplay of Jewish and non-Jewish philosophical perspectives. The article briefly describes Jellinek’s early education and attraction to Leipzig; his first writings on Kabbalah; and concludes with an analysis of his larger philological and genealogical projects on the authorship and literary background of the Zohar. Though Jellinek’s later prominence as a rabbi and preacher in Vienna has had the tendency to obscure his years in Leipzig, it was Jellinek’s work in Saxony that laid the groundwork for most of his subsequent scholarship on Jewish mysticism. This article is a brief introduction to this research and one more step toward revealing the still too often forgotten Wissenschaft interest in the history of Jewish mysticism.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-417828
SP  - 125
EP  - 144
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -