Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism : International Symposium held in Frankfurt a.M. 1991.

Inhalt -- Introduction -- The Language of the Mystics in Medieval Germany -- Between Magic and Religion - Ashkenazi Hasidic Piety -- Prayer Gestures in German Hasidism -- Metatron and Shi'ur Qomah in the Writings of Haside Ashkenaz -- Images of Women in Sefer Hasidim -- Social and Mystical Aspects of Sefer Hasidim -- Rabbi Judah The Pious' Will in Halakhic and Kabbalistic Literature -- Rabbi Judah the Pious as a Legendary Figure -- An Anonymous Kabbalistic Commentary on Shir ha-Yihud -- Kabbalisten, Ketzer und Polemiker. Das kulturelle Umfeld des Sefer ha-Nizachon von Lipman Mühlhausen -- The Maharal of Prag and the Kabbalah -- Zauberei und Zauber in der deutschen Literatur des 16. Jahrhunderts -- Pico della Mirandola and the Beginnings of Christian Kabbala -- A Profile of R. Naphtali Katz from Frankfurt and His Attitude Towards Sabbateanism -- Rabbi Nathan Adler of Frankfurt and the Controversy Surrounding Him -- Dr. Samuel Falk and the Eibeschuetz-Emden Controversy -- The Mystical Visions of Rabbi Hyle Wechsler in the 19th Century -- Meyer Heinrich Hirsch Landauer - Bible Scholar and Kabbalist -- Kabbala-Rezeption in der Deutschen Romantik -- Kabbala und Liebe. August Beckers Roman ,Des Rabbi Vermächtniß' (1866/67).