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Posted: Sat Feb 6th, 2010 04:54 pm |
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I understand that the diary of the Baal Shem of London, a.k.a. Rabbi Dr. Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk or Doctor Falckon, is in the United Synagogue Beth HaMidrash Library in London.
Falk had an alchemical laboratory in a house on London Bridge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_Shem_of_London
Questions:
1. Has anyone here inspected this diary?
2. What language(s) is it in?
3. Does it have any alchemical content?
Thanks in advance,
PaulLast edited on Sat Feb 6th, 2010 06:00 pm by Paul Ferguson
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adammclean
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Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 01:17 pm |
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Marsha Keith Schuchard, an American academic has researched Falk in some detail.
She wrote an article for the Autumn 1987 issue of my Hermetic Journal :-
Schuchard, Marsha Keith. Yeats and the Unknown Superiors: Swedenborg, Falk, and Cagliostro.
She did send me some further material on this theme in the 1990s, but I expect this was published elsewhere.
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Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 02:34 pm |
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Hi Adam,
Thanks for the Schuchard reference. It turns out that Falk's diary has also been extensively studied by Michal Oron, see page 243 of:
http://books.google.com/books?id=6UWycTtUF94C&pg=PP1&dq=%22chemul+falk%22&lr=#v=onepage&q=%22chemul%20falk%22&f=false
Apparently the diary consists of 59 pages written in 'poor and halting' Hebrew.
Here is Brian Talbot's riposte to Martha Schuchard:
http://www.newphilosophyonline.org/journal/data/110b/Talbot_Article--New_Philosophy_July-December_2007.pdfLast edited on Sun Feb 7th, 2010 02:50 pm by Paul Ferguson
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Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 03:25 pm |
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Paul Ferguson wrote: Here is Brian Talbot's riposte to Martha Schuchard:
Quite a devastating critique !
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Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 11:01 pm |
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I see Michal has edited and published the diaries:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rabbi-Mystic-Impostor-Eighteenth-Century-London/dp/1904113036
Published just a few days ago!!!
For the record, Michal has also written a biography of Falk in Hebrew:
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/OROSAMUEL
I think the English-language book is very closely based on this.
Some interesting trivia about Falk here, including the fact that his descendants apparently include Lottie Collins of Ta-ra-ra-BOOM-dee-ay fame:
http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2009/03/cecil-roths-eltere-zeide-in-law-londons.htmlLast edited on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 11:29 am by Paul Ferguson
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