Jacob's Ladder : Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature.

Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Kabbalah Then and Now: a Historical Perspective -- A Quest For Moral Perfection: Kabbalistic Allegory in Eighteenth-Century Мasonic Literature -- Knowledge Hidden In Letters: Alchemic Kabbalah and Russian Romantic Literature -- In the Beginning Was the Word: Magical Kabbalah, the Occult Revival, and the Linguistic Mysticism of the Silver Age -- Modernism and Kabbalah: Linguistic Mysticism in the Literary Doctrine of the Russian Silver Age -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.