Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

Jacob's Ladder

Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature

by Marina Aptekman

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English
Read free

Description

Description from Directory of Open Access Books (opens in a new tab)

Jacob’s Ladder discusses the reflection of kabbalistic allegory in Russian literature and provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the perception of Kabbalah in Russian consciousness. Aptekman investigates the questions of when, how, and why Kabbalah has been used in Russian literary texts from Pre-Romanticism to Modernism and what particular role it played in the larger context of the Russian literary tradition. The correct understanding of this liaison helps the reader clarify many enigmatic images in Russian literary works of the last two centuries and to understand the roots of a particular cultural falsification that played an important role in the anti-Semitic mythology of the twentieth century.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Initiatory orders and secret societies, Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism, and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from oapen matched “occultism”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the subject metadata.

    • “occultism”· via OAPEN Library
    • “occult”· in subject
  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from doab and oapen matched “alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.

    • “alchemy”· via Directory of Open Access Books
    • “alchemy”· via OAPEN Library
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from doab and oapen matched “Kabbalah”. Retained metadata contains “Kabbalah” in the description and “Kabbalah” in the subject metadata.

    • “Kabbalah”· via Directory of Open Access Books
    • “Kabbalah”· via OAPEN Library
    • “Kabbalah”· in description
    • “Kabbalah”· in subject
  • Initiatory orders and secret societies

    Retained metadata contains “Freemasonry” in the subject metadata.

    • “Freemasonry”· in subject
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from oapen matched “mysticism”. Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the description and “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “mysticism”· via OAPEN Library
    • “Consciousness”· in description
    • “Mysticism”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

Links to ISBN 1618116916; other editions may be cheaper. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

One edition cataloged here.

Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature

Directory of Open Access Books edition

Boston, MA

2011-06-01Academic Studies PressEnglish
  • 9781618116918
  • 9781934843383
Open access

Subjects

9 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Cataloged from

Catalog id
doab:20.500.12854/33491
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved