The father of Jewish mysticism : the writing of Gershom Scholem /
"The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual thinker. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem...
| Uniform title: | Gershom Scholem. |
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Anderson, Sage, translator. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English German |
| Imprint: | Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022] |
| Series: | New Jewish philosophy and thought.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text |
| Summary: | "The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual thinker. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem thought. Scholem, a historian of Kabbalah and sharp critic of Jewish assimilation, played a major role in the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism. Through his work on Kabbalah, Scholem turned the closed world of mystical texts into a force for Jewish identity. Skillfully drawing on Scholem's early diaries and writings, The Father of Jewish Mysticism introduces a young, soon-to-be legendary intellectual in search of himself and Judaism"-- The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem's thought. Scholem, a historian ofthe Kabbalah and sharp critic of Jewish assimilation, played a major role in the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism. Through his work on the Kabbalah, Scholem turned the closed world of mystical texts into a force for Jewish identity. Skillfully drawing on Scholem's early diaries and writings, The Father of Jewish Mysticism introduces a young, soon-to-be legendary intellectual in search of himself and Judaism. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in German as Gershom Scholem by Wilhelm Fink Verlag." Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 16, 2022). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253062109 0253062101 9780253062093 0253062098 |
| Author Notes: | Daniel Weidner is Professor of Comparative Literature at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He is the author of Bibel und Literatur um 1800 and editor of the Handbuch Literatur und Religion, Blumenberg Lesen: Ein Glossar , and Profanes Leben: Walter Benjamins Dialektik der Säkularisierung . |