5:00-6:00pm Opening Keynote Boaz Huss, Ben Gurion University

The Qabbalah of the Hebrews and the Ancient Wisdom Religion of Asia: Isaac Myer and the Kabbalah in America

6:00-7:00PMTextual Transmission in the American Context

Brian Ogren, Rice UniversityZoharic Reception and Trinitarian

Thoughtin Early America

Ronit Meroz, Tel Aviv University The Many Faces of Sefer Yetzirah in the Past

and in America

SUNDAY, October 289:30-10:30 Colonial Beginnings

Michael Hoberman, Fitchburg State University “They have with faithfulnesse and care transmitted the Oracles of God unto

us Gentiles”: Jewish scholarship in the Puritan imaginationLaura Leibman, Reed College

The Traveling Kabbalah. The ‘Lost’ Carigal Manuscript in Early America 10:45-12:15 Theosophical Society and its Influences

Julie Chajes, Tel Aviv University Seth Pancoast and Kabbalah

Vadim Putzu, Missouri State University Kabbalah in the Ozarks: Thomas Moore Johnson, The Platonist,

and the Hermetic Brotherhood of LuxorMarcia Brennan, Rice University Hyman Bloom’s Mystical Brides

1:00-2:30 Nineteenth Century DevelopmentsJonathan Sarna, Brandeis University

A Jewish Kabbalistic text from 19th century America: Isidor Kalisch’sSefer Yetzirah

Peter Lanchidi, Ben Gurion University The Masonic Career of A Kabbalistic Lithograph – Max Wolff, The Origin of

the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews, New York, 1859 Eliyahu Stern, Yale University

Pragmatic Kabbalah: Mordecai Kaplan, Joseph L. Sossnitz and the Mystical Origins of Jewish Peoplehood

2:45-3:45 Plenary Address:Shaul Magid, Indiana University

A Book Bound on Both Ends: The Inverted Sabbateanism and Jewish Monasticism of Dovid Din

4:00-5:00 Hasidism, Neo-Hasidism, and Ashlagian Kabbalah Ariel Mayse, Stanford University

Liberty for All: American Neo-Hasidism and HalakhahRon Margolin, Tel Aviv University

Identity or Spirituality: What is behind Buberian Neo Hasidism and Ashlagian Kabbalah in America?

9:30-11:00 Psychology and CharismaPinchas Giller, American Jewish University

Shlomo Carlebach and the CountercultureAlan Brill, Seton Hall University

Aryeh Kaplan's Quest for the Lost Jewish Traditions of Science, Psychology and Prophecy

Clemence Boulouque, Columbia UniversityThe Oversoul and its Kabbalistic Overtones: Schelling, Emerson

and the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America 11:15-12:15 Bodily Experience and the Paranormal

Jeff Kripal, Rice UniversityChanged in a Flash: Kabbalistic Motifs in a Modern Jewish

Near-Death ExperienceMarla Segol, University at Buffalo

Kabbalah and Sex Magic in Contemporary Self-Help 1:00-2:30 American Denominationalism

Dana Evan Kaplan, Springhill Avenue TempleAmerican Reform Judaism's Increasing Acceptance of Kabbalah :

The Contribution of Rabbi Herbert Weiner's 9 1⁄2 MysticsDanny Horwitz, Congregation Beth YeshurunAmerican Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah

Jody Myers, Cal State NorthridgeKabbalah as a Tool of Orthodox Outreach

2:45-3:45 Scholars and PoetsMoshe Idel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Solomon Schechter, Abraham Y. Heschel, Alexander Altmann Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Religious Fluidity, Connecting with Ancestral Heritage and Kabbalah: Allen Ginsberg and Gershom Scholem’s Teachings

Location: Kyle Morrow Room,

Fondren LibraryFree and open to the public

October 28-30, 2018Rice UniversityMONDAY, October 29 TUESDAY, October 30

Many thanks to our generous sponsors:Rice University Creative Ventures :: Rice HRC :: Department of

Religion, Rockwell Fund :: Program in Jewish Studies