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Wykład odbędzie się w języku angielskim bez tłumaczenia na polski.

Jewish Messianic-mystical movements – Such as Sabbateans and Frankism – had enormous historical and social consequences. However, for some reason, they hardly served as a background and inspiration for modern fictional literary works. All this, of course, until Olga Tokarczuk published her book on Jacob Frank. In this lecture, we will discuss Jewish mystical materials that serve as inspiration for modern culture: literature, poetry, movies, etc., and show how Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) thereby becomes, nowadays, something universal.

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Prof. Daniel Reiser heads the Department of Jewish Thought at Herzog College. He specializes in Hasidic philosophy, modern mysticism, and theology in the Shoah. His latest books are Language of Truth in the Mother Tongue: The Yiddish Sermons of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (2020); Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism (2018) and Sermons from the Years of Rage (2017). 

Prof. Reiser also prepared a Hebrew version of the sermons of Rabbi Kalman Kalonimus Shapira, which the Jewish Historical Institute published as volume 25a of the complete edition of the Ringelblum Archive. The book can be ordered at the Tłomackie Bookshop, and in the digital version, it can be found at the Central Judaic Library.

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Illustration: Kabbalistic Amulet, the collection of the JHI