TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engel,Amir
TI  - Gershom Scholem: an Intellectual Biography
T2  - Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
SN  - 9780226428772
AV  - BM755.S295 
U1  - 296.092 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Scholem, Gershom Gerhard,
KW  - Scholem, Gershom,
KW  - Jewish scholars
KW  - Germany
KW  - Biography
KW  - Israel
KW  - Zionism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Savants juifs
KW  - Allemagne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Israël
KW  - Mysticisme
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Exile
KW  - German Jewish culture
KW  - Gershom Scholem
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Homecoming
KW  - Jewish mysticism
KW  - Myth
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Stories of Gershom Scholem; 2. Writing the Myth of Exile: In Search of Political Rejuvenation, 1913-1918; 3. Messianism as Symbol: The Lurianic School and the Emergence of a Mystical-Political Society; 4. When a Dream Comes True: Zionist Politics in Palestine, 1923-1931; 5. Against All Odds: Sabbatean Belief and the Sabbatean Movement; 6. For the Love of Israel: The Turn from the Fringe to the Mainstream of Zionist Thinking; 7. The Man and the Image; Index
N2  - Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the vast literature of Jewish mystical lore into a rich assortment of stories that unveiled new truths about the modern condition
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