Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism based on the Hilda Strook Lectures delivered at the Jewish Institute of Religion, New York by Gershom Scholem, Professor of Jewish Mysticism, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 454 pages. There are nine lectures in this book: General Characteristics of Jewish Mysticism Merkabah Mysticism and Jewish Gnosticism Hasidism in Mediaeval Germany Abraham Abulafia and the Doctrine of Prophetic Kabbalism The Zohar I. The Book and its Author The Zohar II. The Theosophic Doctirne of the Zohar Isaac Luria and his School Sabbatianism and Mystical Heresy Hasidism: The Latest Phase