Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904, Paperback/Yehudah Mirsky

An exploration of Rav Kook's formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904. About author(s): Yehudah Mirsky is Full Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. A former US State Department official, he has written widely on religion, politics, and culture for the New York Times , the Economist , the Washington Post , and many other publications. He won the Jewish Book Council's Sami Rohr Choice Award for his earlier work, Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution .