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Abulafia, Abraham, 12, 27, 44-48, 61, 100-101; Haye Olam Ha-Ba, 29,44; as Messiah, 12,27,55; The Path oj the Names, 29-30; as Raziel, 29, 47, 50; Sepher Ha-Ot, 29; Sha'erei Zedek, 47, 97; as Zechariah, 29 Abulafianism, 12,27-31,67-68,83, 106-107; and apocalyptic, 29; Lettrism, compared to, 30; and linguistic theory, 27-31, 83, 94, 97,99-108; and meditation, 28, 30, 47, 97; and prophecy, 27; and sephiroth, 27; Seventy-Two Letter Name or seventy-two names of God, 28. See aLro Gematria, Lcttrism, Isidore Isou, Notarikon, and Zeroj Adam Kadmon. See Lurianism; cosmogonic myth of Akiba, Rabbi, 22, 40 Angelology. See Apocalyptic: angelology Apocalyptic, 22; angelology. 15, 19, 23, 26-27, 58-60; and catastrophe, 16; and cosmology, Index 16, 17; and determinism, 23; and dualism, 18, 23; and eschatology, 16,17; and exile, 14-16; historiography in, 15, 18-19, 24-25, 26, 37, 51-52, 55, 74-81,93; history of, 16,23-36; and linguistic theory, 16; literary style of, 19,23-24; and myth, 17, 19; and numerology, 24; pessimistic optimism of, 18; prophecy , contrast to, 18-19,39; pseudonyms in, 19, 23; rejection of, 12-14; secular literature, relationship to, 19-20; symbolism in, 19,23,24-25,26; and theodicy, 18; and theology, 16; visions in, 15, 19,23,26 Apocalyptic Messianism. See Messianism : apocalyptic Ari, The. See Luria, Isaac Ashkenazim, 2, 12 Autobiography: and exile/return, 75-80 Bar Kochba, Simon, 22, 40 133 134 Apoca~yptic Messiallism alld Jewish-Americall Poetry Bloom, Harold, 9, 20, 107-108 Borenstein, Emily: "Life of the Letters," 94 Cohen, Arthur A., 7-8; /11 the Days of Simoll Stern, 40-42 Counter-history. See Scholem, Gershom: and Counter-history Cyclical history. See Apocalyptic: historiography Dada, 99-100, 101 Daniel, Book of, 12, 23-25 Deep Imagism, 4, 9 Diaspora. See Exile Drachler, Rose, 9, 10; "Athens and Jerusalem," 42-43; 'The Letters of the Book," 94; "The Prophet," 57; 'The Witness," 57-58 Eill Sof. See Lurianism: cosmogonic myth of Eleazer of Worms, 27 Elijah, 19, 22, 56-57 Emanations. See Lurianism: and emanations Enoch, 19, 26-27; Book of, 12, 23, 25-27 Ethnopoetics, 9 Exile, 11, 15-16,41-42,74, 75ff., 90,94, 103-105, 107 False Messiahs. See Messianism: messianic aspirants Feldman, irving, 1, 7, 10; "The Apocalypse is a School for Prophets ," 39; "The Messengers," 58; "Pripet Marshes," 110-111; "Wandering Jew," 77-79; Works alld Days, 75-77 Feldman, Ruth: "Lilith," 68 Finkel, Donald: "Lilith," 68 Frank, Jacob, 33-35, 48, 55, 100, 102-103, 105 Frankism, 22, 33-35 Gematria, 27-28, 83, 87-88, 94-99, 107 Goles. See Exile Grossman, Allen: "Lilith," 68 Haskalah, 16, 17, 35 Hecht, Anthony. 7; "Exile," 74-75; Rites alld Ceremollies, 7, 110-111 Hirschman, Jack, 9, 10, 29-31, 48, 94,95-96, 107; "Ari," 61-62;"Ascent ," 96; Black Alephs, 95-96; "EI," 63; "Eluardian Elohenu for Allen Ginsberg," 46; "Fingerpoint," 96; "The Holy Kabbala ," 64; "Hymn," 46-47; "The R of Ari's Raziel," 49-51; "There is a Beautiful Maiden Who Has No Eyes Who is the True Messiah," 64; translation of Jacob Tausk of Prague's 'Ein Schon Neu Lied fun Moschiach,' " 51; translation of Ladino lyrics, 51-52; "Zohara," 64 Historical fiction. 38-39, 40-42, 48-49 Hitler, Adolf, 10 1 Hollander, John, 1, 7,9, 107; "The Loss of Smyrna," 53-54; Spectral Emallatiolls, 1, 7,87-94 Holocaust, 15, 16,35-36,37,81, 109-111; and American Jews, 109-111; literary response, 12-14, 111; and survivorship, 14, 41 Index 135 Ineffable Name of God, 105 Isaiah, 19, 89 Isou, Isidore, 99-100 Jewish-American Literature: allegorical mode,S7, 81, 83; historical mode, 37, 39, 55; history of poetry, 1-10; mystical mode, 83, 107-108; poetry, ix-x, 13-14; stereotype, 8 Jewish historiography, 14, 21 Jewishness, 7-8; relationship to Christianity , 2, 3, 7,16-17,19,22, 25, 40, 60, 74-75, 102, 103. See also Wandering Jew Joseph, 74-75 Josephus, 87 Kabbalah, ix, 11, 17; and ontology, 83 Kessler, Jascha: "Waiting for Lilith," 68 Kusher, Laurence: The Book of Letters, 94 Lazarus, Emma, 2-4, 10; Admetus and Other Poems, 3; "The New Colossus ," 3-4; Songs ofa Semite, 3 Lettrism, 30, 99-100 Lilith, 54, 67-70 Luria, Isaac, 22, 31, 49-51, 61; as Messiah ben Joseph, 31 Lurianism, 16,31...

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