Gershom Scholem
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Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-history
By David BialeIn this paperback edition of his definitive book on Scholem's work, David Biale has shortened and rearranged his study for the benefit of the general reader and the student.
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Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah
By David BialeA 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 ...
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Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah
By David BialeMaster of the Kabbalah David Biale. Then the entry takes an astonishing turn. Buber may have proclaimed Jewish renewal, but he was not himself the redeemer: “He only wanted to prepare the way for one greater who would come after him.
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Gershom Scholem: The Man and His Work
By Gershom Gerhard Scholem, Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Pôl Mendes-FlôrIn 1927 the library published a classification system for Judaica developed and introduced by Scholem , adapting the Dewey classification system to the special requirements of Judaica . The ' Scholem system , ' revised and updated ...
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Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography
By Amir EngelIn his book Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer, Steven Aschheim for example argues: “Taken collectively they yield a mosaic, a kind of composite portrait of the turbulent history of German Jews in the twentieth century.
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Gershom Scholem: The Man and His Work
By Paul Mendes-Flohr... Hasidim contained more fruitful and original ideas than those of their rationalistic opponents , the Maskilim , and that the reborn Hebrew culture could find much of value in the heritage of Hasidism . Even so restrained a critic as ...
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Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back
By Noam ZadoffDespite 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.
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Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography
By Amir Engel... Zion. Is Jerusalem the New “Zion”? Scholem's immigration to Palestine, as we have seen, transformed his political ... the dream of a perfectly harmonious society with something rather imperfect, a parliamentary democracy that would ...