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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Bibliographic Details
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.)
Subjects:
Scholem, Gershom, > 1897-1982.
Jewish scholars > Israel > Biography.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xi, 232 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.