"Lachter's work is a compelling and important study of the manner in which Kabbalah responded to political and cultural pressures in Castile at a time of striking proliferation of kabbalistic literature."
— Jonathan Dauber, professor of Jewish mysticism, Yeshiva University
"This book is an exceptionally fresh and significant contribution. It is an important corrective to the tendency to sublimate social history to the history of ideas."
— Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College
"Lachter succeeds admirably in moving scholarship forward."
— AJS Review
"A worthwhile and edifying contribution to contemporary scholarship on medieval Jewish mysticism."
— H-Judaic
"This book is an exceptionally fresh and significant contribution. It is an important corrective to the tendency to sublimate social history to the history of ideas."
— Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College
"Lachter's work is a compelling and important study of the manner in which Kabbalah responded to political and cultural pressures in Castile at a time of striking proliferation of kabbalistic literature."
— Jonathan Dauber, professor of Jewish mysticism, Yeshiva University
"Lachter succeeds admirably in moving scholarship forward."
— AJS Review
"A worthwhile and edifying contribution to contemporary scholarship on medieval Jewish mysticism."
— H-Judaic
"Lachter's work is a compelling and important study of the manner in which Kabbalah responded to political and cultural pressures in Castile at a time of striking proliferation of kabbalistic literature."
— Jonathan Dauber, professor of Jewish mysticism, Yeshiva University
"This book is an exceptionally fresh and significant contribution. It is an important corrective to the tendency to sublimate social history to the history of ideas."
— Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College
"Lachter succeeds admirably in moving scholarship forward."
— AJS Review
"A worthwhile and edifying contribution to contemporary scholarship on medieval Jewish mysticism."
— H-Judaic