Suggested Readings in Jewish Mysticism, Magic, and Folklore (a work in progress)
Blech, Benjamin
[amazon_image id=”1568219180″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Secrets of Hebrew Words[/amazon_image]
[amazon_link id=”1568219180″ target=”_blank” ]The Secrets of Hebrew Words[/amazon_link]
Dresner, Samuel H.
[amazon_image id=”1568212399″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The World of a Hasidic Master: Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev[/amazon_image]
[amazon_link id=”1568212399″ target=”_blank” ]The World of a Hasidic Master: Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev[/amazon_link]
Gesenius, William
— A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (with Biblical Aramaic Appendix)
Ginsburgh, R’ Yitzchak
— The Aleph-Beit: Jewish Thought Revealed through the Hebrew Letters
Ginzburg, Louis
— The Legends of the Jews [multiple volumes]
Glazerson, Matityahu
— Hebrew: Source of Languages
— Letters of Fire: Mystical Insights into the Hebrew Language
— The Secrets of the Haggadah
Halevi, Z’ev ben Shimon
— The Anointed [and many other works]
James, William
— The Varieties of Religious Experience
Kaplan, R’ Aryeh (translations and commentaries)
— The Bahir Illumination: Attributed to R’ Nehunia ben haKana, master of the first century esoteric school
— The Living Torah [bilingual edition]
— Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice
Lindquist, Galina
— Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia
— Ritual in its Own Right [with Don Handelman]
Murphy, Michael
— The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature
Scholem, G.
— Sabbatei Sevi: Mystical Messiah
Schwartz, Howard
— The Four Who Entered Paradise
Seidman, Naomi
— A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish
Sharot, Stephen
— Messianism, Mysticism and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
— Gimpel the Fool
— The Magician of Lublin
— The Spinoza of Market Street
Trachtenberg, Joshua
— Jewish Magic and Superstition
Wahiduddin, Richard Shelquist
— Bismillah al-rahman al-rahim
Winkler, Gershon
— Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism