Title Kabbalah and the founding of America : the early influence of Jewish thought in the New World / Brian Ogren.

Publication Info.	New York : NYU Press, [2021]
	©2021

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Description	xi, 315 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"Kabbalah and the Founding of America explores the use of Jewish esoteric thought in colonial America by Quaker theologian George Keith, Puritan ministers Increase and Cotton Mather, the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard Judah Monis, and the seventh president of Yale Ezra Stiles, in shaping new Protestant American religious sensibilities"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Cabala.
	United States -- Civilization -- Jewish influences.
	Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
	Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	United States -- Intellectual life.
	Cabala. (OCoLC)fst00843481
	Civilization -- Jewish influences. (OCoLC)fst00862927
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Protestantism. (OCoLC)fst01079920
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1600-1799
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Ogren, Brian, Kabbalah and the founding of America New York : NYU Press, 2021. 9781479807994 (DLC) 2020041599
ISBN	9781479807987 (hardback)
	1479807982 (hardback)
	9781479807994 (ebook)
	9781479808007 (ebook)

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