Secret Doctrine of the Jews

Boaz Huss is the Aron Bernstein Chair in Jewish History in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age Spirituality and The Zohar: Reception and Impact.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Theosophical Society2. Jewish Followers of the Early Theosophical Society3. Jewish Theosophists around the Globe4. Jewish Followers of the Offshoots of the Theosophical Society5. The Association of Hebrew Theosophists6. "Sincere Jews": The Jewish Theosophists in Basra7. Theosophy in Israel8. "To Spread Theosophical Teachings among the Jews": Jewish Theosophists and the Jewish World9. Jewish Theosophists Facing Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism within the Theosophical Society 10. Qabbalah, the Theos-Sophia of the Jews: Jewish Theosophists and the KabbalahConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"The author's thorough investigation of the Jews who affiliated in some way with the theosophical movement in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries is revealing in a number of ways." — Nova Religio"Boaz Huss's latest book breaks new ground in the study of Western esotericism and modern Jewish thought." — Contemporary Jewry"This is a groundbreaking investigation into a topic that has been largely overlooked by scholars of Theosophy. Drawing upon previously unknown sources and archival documents, coupled with a masterful rereading of the field's most well-known sources, this study calls our attention to the far-reaching influence of Theosophy on contemporary Jewish thought." — Marina Alexandrova, University of Texas at Austin