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...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "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"-- |
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Notas: | "Originally published in German as Gershom Scholem by Wilhelm Fink Verlag." |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (250 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780253062093 |