The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem
The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem (New Jewish Philosophy and Thought) by Daniel Weidner, translated by Sage Anderson
English | October 4, 2022 | ISBN: 0253062071, 025306208X | True EPUB | 250 pages | 0.9 MB
English | October 4, 2022 | ISBN: 0253062071, 025306208X | True EPUB | 250 pages | 0.9 MB
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.