Andrea Gondos is Emmy Noether Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the coeditor (with Daniel Maoz) of From Antiquity to the Postmodern World: Contemporary Jewish Studies in Canada.

"…[a] a superb study, which provides many exciting avenues for future scholarship." — AJS Review"The book's argument is compelling and clearly written, and integrates the developing literature and book history with important advances in early modern Jewish intellectual history." — AJL News and Reviews"…informative and insightful…" — Jerusalem Report"Kabbalah in Print is an important study of several aspects of early modern Ashkenazi culture … It is also an important contribution to our understanding of the popularization and dissemination of kabbalistic teachings and practices in the first half of the 17th century in Central and Eastern Europe. Well written and elegantly argued, it is a work that deserves a place in every collection devoted to early modern Ashkenazi society." — Reading Religion"Charting a new direction for the study of the development of Kabbalah in the early modern period, this book examines the spread of Jewish mystical texts and what this can teach us about broader issues of knowledge communication and organization. Gondos is a sophisticated researcher, well versed in theories and methods in addition to being extremely knowledgeable about her subject area of inquiry. The result is a wonderful book that contributes much to multiple disciplines!" — Ariel Evan Mayse, author of Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Print Technology and Its Impact on Religious Consciousness2. Cultural Agency and Printing in Early Modern Ashkenaz3. Kabbalistic Abridgments and Their Cultural Impact4. Zoharic Customs in a Halakhic Framework5. Constructing a Zoharic Lexicon6. The Plain Meaning of the Zohar: An Anthological Approach7. The Influence of Kabbalistic Study Guides and Concluding RemarksNotesBibliographyIndex

Andrea Gondos is Emmy Noether Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the coeditor (with Daniel Maoz) of From Antiquity to the Postmodern World: Contemporary Jewish Studies in Canada.

"…[a] a superb study, which provides many exciting avenues for future scholarship." — AJS Review"The book's argument is compelling and clearly written, and integrates the developing literature and book history with important advances in early modern Jewish intellectual history." — AJL News and Reviews"…informative and insightful…" — Jerusalem Report"Kabbalah in Print is an important study of several aspects of early modern Ashkenazi culture … It is also an important contribution to our understanding of the popularization and dissemination of kabbalistic teachings and practices in the first half of the 17th century in Central and Eastern Europe. Well written and elegantly argued, it is a work that deserves a place in every collection devoted to early modern Ashkenazi society." — Reading Religion"Charting a new direction for the study of the development of Kabbalah in the early modern period, this book examines the spread of Jewish mystical texts and what this can teach us about broader issues of knowledge communication and organization. Gondos is a sophisticated researcher, well versed in theories and methods in addition to being extremely knowledgeable about her subject area of inquiry. The result is a wonderful book that contributes much to multiple disciplines!" — Ariel Evan Mayse, author of Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Print Technology and Its Impact on Religious Consciousness2. Cultural Agency and Printing in Early Modern Ashkenaz3. Kabbalistic Abridgments and Their Cultural Impact4. Zoharic Customs in a Halakhic Framework5. Constructing a Zoharic Lexicon6. The Plain Meaning of the Zohar: An Anthological Approach7. The Influence of Kabbalistic Study Guides and Concluding RemarksNotesBibliographyIndex

Andrea Gondos is Emmy Noether Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the coeditor (with Daniel Maoz) of From Antiquity to the Postmodern World: Contemporary Jewish Studies in Canada.

"…[a] a superb study, which provides many exciting avenues for future scholarship." — AJS Review"The book's argument is compelling and clearly written, and integrates the developing literature and book history with important advances in early modern Jewish intellectual history." — AJL News and Reviews"…informative and insightful…" — Jerusalem Report"Kabbalah in Print is an important study of several aspects of early modern Ashkenazi culture … It is also an important contribution to our understanding of the popularization and dissemination of kabbalistic teachings and practices in the first half of the 17th century in Central and Eastern Europe. Well written and elegantly argued, it is a work that deserves a place in every collection devoted to early modern Ashkenazi society." — Reading Religion"Charting a new direction for the study of the development of Kabbalah in the early modern period, this book examines the spread of Jewish mystical texts and what this can teach us about broader issues of knowledge communication and organization. Gondos is a sophisticated researcher, well versed in theories and methods in addition to being extremely knowledgeable about her subject area of inquiry. The result is a wonderful book that contributes much to multiple disciplines!" — Ariel Evan Mayse, author of Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Print Technology and Its Impact on Religious Consciousness2. Cultural Agency and Printing in Early Modern Ashkenaz3. Kabbalistic Abridgments and Their Cultural Impact4. Zoharic Customs in a Halakhic Framework5. Constructing a Zoharic Lexicon6. The Plain Meaning of the Zohar: An Anthological Approach7. The Influence of Kabbalistic Study Guides and Concluding RemarksNotesBibliographyIndex