Gershom Scholem : master of the Kabbalah / David Biale.

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 mystici...

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Uniform Title:Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Main Author: Biale, David, 1949- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Series:Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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Physical Description:xi, 232 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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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