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Kabbalah and the Founding of AmericaBrian Ogren
Kabbalah and the Founding of America
The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World
Brian Ogren explores how Kabbalistic ideas circulated in colonial and early republican America among Puritan ministers such as Increase and Cotton Mather, Harvard Hebraists and Jewish thinkers. He argues that Christian and Jewish engagement with Kabbalah helped shape American notions of chosenness, providence and the new nation. This NYU Press study suits readers interested in Christian Cabala's transatlantic afterlife and American religious history.






