Subject: Re: Salinger and Kabbalah [was Re: Cheever and Salinger]
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 22 2002 - 00:27:46 EDT
--- "L. Manning Vines" <lmanningvines@hotmail.com> wrote:
First of all, Robbie, thank you for your comprehensive history of the
Kabbalah. You related much I didn't know.
> So I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that it would have
> been a lot easier for Salinger to study the Vedas in the '50s and '60s
> than to study Kabbalah. It's possible, I think, that he hadn't even
> heard of it.
The reason I even looked into it -- granted, this may have not been a very
good reason -- is because not too long ago, I read a novel by Chaim Potok
called THE CHOSEN. It's about a young Jewish boy who becomes good friends
with an Hasidic Jewish boy, and Kabbalah figures rather prominently in the
book. It is set during and just after WWII, during the founding of the
Jewish state.
I don't know that it's very good evidence that Salinger would have been
aware, but Potok certainly was.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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