Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512601138)

German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zionism, the phenomenology of mystical religion, and the spiritual and political condition of contemporary Judaism and Jewish civilization. Scholem famously recounted rejecting his parents' assimilationist liberalism in favor of Zionism and immigrating to Palestine in 1923, where he became a central figure in the German Jewish immigrant community that dominated the nation's intellectual landscape in Mandatory Palestine. Despite Scholem's public renunciation of Germany for Israel, Zadoff explores how the life and work of Scholem reflect ambivalence toward Zionism and his German origins.

Author: Noam Zadoff
ISBN-10: 1512601136
ISBN-13: 9781512601138
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2017
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2018