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Gershom Scholem :

0300215908

9780300215908

Gershom Scholem :

[Book]

master of the Kabbalah /

David Biale.

1st edition.

London :

Yale University Press,

[2018]

©2018

232 pages :

portrait ;

22 cm

Jewish lives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.

Berlin childhood -- The abyss of war -- Scholem in love -- The book of brightness -- A university in Jerusalem -- Redemption through sin -- Kabbalah and catastrophe -- The Zionist return to history -- The sage of Jerusalem -- A personal epilogue.

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A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement. Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as a legitimate academic discipline, he overturned the rationalist bias of his predecessors and revealed an extraordinary world of myth and messianism. In his youth, he rebelled against the assimilationist culture of his parents and embraced Zionism as the vehicle for the renewal of Judaism in a secular age. He moved to Palestine in 1923 and took part in the creation of the Hebrew University, where he was a towering figure for nearly seventy years. David Biale traces Scholem's tumultuous life of political activism and cultural criticism, including his falling-out with Hannah Arendt over the Eichmann trial. Mining a rich trove of diaries, letters, and other writings, Biale shows that his subject's inner life illuminates his most important writings. Scholem emerges as a passionately engaged man of his times-a period that encompassed the extremely significant events of the two world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust.

Scholem, Gershom,1897-1982.

Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982

Scholem, Gershom,1897-1982.

Kabbala

Jewish scholars-- Germany, Biography.

Jewish scholars-- Israel, Biography.

Jewish scholars.

Jüdische Philosophie

Germany.

Israel.

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Biale, David,1949-

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