Dan Cohn-Sherbok - A Dictionary of Kabbalah and Kabbalists

First published in 2009
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The entries in this work including kabbalistic concepts, kabbalists and anti-kabbalists are ordered alphabetically. In matters of orthography, terminology and punctuation the Dictionary generally follows British practice. An effort has been made to identify small places by naming a larger place nearby, or locating it within a state or area. Where a place-name has changed in the course of history, the name current at the time under discussion has been used. In article headings, the following abbreviations are used: b.=born, d.=died, fl.= flourished, c.=circa. The use of a question mark indicates uncertainty about the date or dates to which it is attached. Throughout the Dictionary BCE is used for the dates before the year 1, and CE for dates from the year 1 onward. Hebrew words have been transliterated generally according to the Sephardi pronunciation. For purposes of tracing entries in the Dictionary, readers should note that (not ch) and (not tz) are used. Titles of works as well as foreign terms generally appear in italic type. Cross-references are in capital letters. Names begin generally in inverted form although in many cases in alternative forms. Brackets are used for alternative names.

Any scholar working in Jewish studies owes an enormous debt to those lexicographers who have already published reference works. The following have been consulted in checking and cross-checking the information contained in this Dictionary: Geoffrey Wigoder, The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, W. H. Allen, 1977; Jewish Encyclopedia, Funk and Wagnalls, 19015; Yacov Newman and Gavriel Sivan, Judaism AZ: Lexicon of Terms and Concepts, Department for Torah Education and Culture in the Diaspora of the World Zionist Organization, 1980; Raphael Judah Zwi Werblowsky and Goffrey Wigoder (eds), The Encyclopedia of Jewish Religion, Phoenix House, 1967; Geoffrey Wigoder (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Judaism, Macmillan, 1989; David Bridger and Samuel Wolk (eds), The New Jewish Encyclopedia, Behrman House, 1962; Geoffrey Wigoder, Dictionary of Jewish Biography, Simon and Schuster, 1991; Encyclopedia Judaica, Keter, 1971 (second edition, Thomas Gale, 2003). I would also like to acknowledge my indebtedness to Zev ben Shimon Halevi.