A Vision of the Future: Jewish Mysticism in the Twenty-First Century
TO a large extent, the steady advance of materialism, scepticism and atheism in the modern
History
History and Historical Narrative
Kabbalah for Gentiles: The Wider Influence of Jewish Mysticism
WHEN Moses de León (1240-1305) was said to have produced the Sefer ha-Zohar at the
Against the Modern World: The Mystical Patriarchs of Later Hasidism
ONE fascinating chapter in the gradual evolution of Jewish spirituality during the seventeenth and eighteenth
School for Scoundrels: The Nightmare Vision of Thomas Wedgwood
IN the north-west midlands of England, there is a famous china and porcelain industry that
The Golden Thread: Walter Benjamin’s Romantic Side
THE Frankfurt School philosopher, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), is often dismissed as a Marxist but his
The Romantic Manifesto: William Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
FIRST published in 1798, the Lyrical Ballads was a collection of poems by William Wordsworth
Črtomir and Bogomila: A Slovenian Love Story
THERE is a nineteenth-century Romantic called France Prešeren (1800-1849) who, in Slovenia, is still widely
The Battle of Pollilur: Stockholm Syndrome in Eighteenth-Century India
ELSEWHERE on this website, I have submitted two separate pieces about British colonialism in India,
Jagat Seth: India’s Rothschilds
IN a previous contribution to this website, entitled ‘Death Factory: The Brutal Rise of the
Death Factory: The Brutal Origins of the East India Company
THERE is a widely held belief that the British State added India to its list
