Here’s a video lecture by Julie Chaje from 2015 on appropriations of Jewish mysticism in the United States. The YT page sez:
Kabbalah and American π: Mathematics and Medicine in late-nineteenth-century Appropriations of Jewish ‘Mysticism.’ Western Esotericism between Religions:
Conversions and Transformations 5th annual meeting of The Israeli Network for Academic Study of Western Esotericism (INASWE) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva – 8 June 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhqkCGD6Zjs.
