Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah (Jewish Lives),Used

Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah (Jewish Lives),Used

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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new biography of the seminal twentiethcentury historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement'Biale . . . not only captures Scholems scholarship, but also his personal involvement in the major issues, conflicts, tragedies, and triumphs of Jewish life during the last century. . . . [An] excellent new book.'Reform JudaismGershom Scholem (18971982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as a legitimate academic discipline, he overturned the rationalist bias of his predecessors and revealed an extraordinary world of myth and messianism. In his youth, he rebelled against the assimilationist culture of his parents and embraced Zionism as the vehicle for the renewal of Judaism in a secular age. He moved to Palestine in 1923 and participated in the creation of the Hebrew University, where he was a towering figure for nearly seventy years.David Biale traces Scholems tumultuous life of political activism and cultural criticism, including his fallingout with Hannah Arendt over the Eichmann trial. Mining a rich trove of diaries, letters, and other writings, Biale shows that his subjects inner life illuminates his most important writings. Scholem emerges as a passionately engaged man of his timesa period that encompassed two world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust.About Jewish Lives:Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.More praise for Jewish Lives:'Excellent' New York Times'Exemplary' Wall Street Journal'Distinguished' New Yorker'Superb' The Guardian

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