Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe

Contents

Contents Foreword vii Moshe Rosman Introduction 1 Glenn Dynner I. JEWISH MYSTICS IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD “You Will Find It in the Pharmacy” 13 Practical Kabbalah and Natural Medicine in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1690–1750 Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Shvartze khasene 55 Black Weddings among Polish Jews Hanna We$grzynek R. Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov 69 “In the State of Walachia” Widening the Besht’s Cultural Panorama Moshe Idel Hasidism and Habitat 104 Managing the Jewish-Christian Encounter in the Kingdom of Poland Glenn Dynner The Rise and Decline of a Hasidic Court 131 The Case of Rabbi Duvid Twersky of Tal’noye Paul Radensky vi Contents II. CHRISTIANIZING JEWS, JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS Immanuel Frommann’s Commentary on 171 Luke and the Christianizing of Kabbalah Some Sabbatean and Hasidic Affinities Elliot R. Wolfson The Peril of Heresy, the Birth of a New Faith 223 The Quest for a Common Jewish-Christian Front against Frankism Pawel Maciejko From Poland to London 250 Sabbatean Influences on the Mystical Underworld of Zinzendorf, Swedenborg, and Blake Marsha Keith Schuchard Me’ayin yavo ‘ezri? 281 The Help of Jacob Frank and His Daughter, Ewa Harris Lenowitz Judaism and Jewish Influences 309 in Russian Spiritual Christianity The Practices of the Early Dukhobors and the Prophecies of Maksim Rudometkin J. Eugene Clay In Search of the Millennium 334 The Convergence of Jews and Ukrainian Evangelical Peasants in Late Imperial Russia Sergei I. Zhuk The Religious World of 359 Russian Sabbatarians (Subbotniks) Nicholas Breyfogle Contributors 393 Index 397 ...