Tags
Language
Tags
<<
December 2024
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 1 2 3 4
  1. Home
  2. eBooks & eLearning
  3. The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem

The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 27 Nov 2022 00:07:20
The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem

Daniel Weidner, "The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem "
English | ISBN: 025306208X | 2022 | 250 pages | PDF | 8 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,
Read more
UPWARDS