Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem: an Intellectual Biography

by Engel, Amir

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Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human e…

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Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the vast literature of Jewish mystical lore into a rich assortment of stories that unveiled new truths about the modern condition.

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  • Publication Date:2017.

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  • Description:1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780226428772, 022642877X
  • oclc:ocn969646415
  • LC Classification:BM755.S295
  • Dewey Decimal:296.092

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Stories of Gershom Scholem; 2. Writing the Myth of Exile: In Search of Political Rejuvenation, 1913-1918; 3. Messianism as Symbol: The Lurianic School and the Emergence of a Mystical-Political Society; 4. When a Dream Comes True: Zionist Politics in Palestine, 1923-1931; 5. Against All Odds: Sabbatean Belief and the Sabbatean Movement; 6. For the Love of Israel: The Turn from the Fringe to the Mainstream of Zionist Thinking; 7. The Man and the Image; Index.

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Subjects

Biographies Biography Germany History Israel Jewish scholars Jewish scholars -- Biography -- Israel Jewish scholars -- Biography. -- Germany Mysticism -- Judaism Mysticisme -- Judaïsme RELIGION -- Judaism Savants juifs -- Biographies -- Israël Savants juifs -- Biographies. -- Allema… Scholem, Gershom Zionism Zionism -- History -- 20th century

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Engel, Amir

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