{"product_id":"on-jews-and-judaism-in-gershom-scholem-9781589880740","title":"On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These essays, dealing as they do with modern Jewish history, literature, and religion, sustain a continuity of conviction that cannot help but inspire a new generation of Jewish intellectual life.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Jews and Judaism in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e presents Gershom Scholem confronting, studying, and judging the important ideas, events, and figures of twentieth-century Judaism. It includes essays on Martin Buber, S. Y. Agnon, and Scholem's friend Walter Benjamin; also his famous 1964 letter to Hannah Arendt. In a 1975 interview, Scholem provides fascinating information about his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is a revelation in store...for the Jewish reader who has not previously encountered Scholem, and even for the non-Jewish reader concerned about the meaning and preservation of 'peoplehood' in the twentieth century...On the meaning and problems of Israel, on the search through tradition for seeds of rebirth, on the resurrection of Hebrew, on the possibility of a modern Jewish theology, on the Jewish relationship to history, Scholem is precise, passionate, skeptical, wholly original.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gershom Scholem is historian who has remade the world...He is coming to be seen as one of the greatest shapers of contemporary thought, possibly the boldest mind-adventurer of our generation.\"--Cynthia Ozick, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGershom Scholem\u003c\/b\u003e (1897-1982) was born in Berlin and educated at the Universities of Berlin, Jena, Bern, and Munich. In 1923, he immigrated to Palestine, where he devoted the rest of his life to the study of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala. In Jerusalem, he was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University and served as president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Scholem was the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eMajor Trends in Jewish Mysticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrom Berlin to Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e (also now available from Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gershom Scholem, Werner J. Dannhauser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589880749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589880740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Gershom Scholem","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985228398847,"sku":"9781589880740","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ce3c325-8021-4a4d-82be-36588f4e9fba.jpg?v=1683276320","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-jews-and-judaism-in-gershom-scholem-9781589880740","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}