Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)

German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897–1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zionism, the phenomenology of mystical religion, and the spiritual and political condition of contemporary Judaism and Jewish civilization. Scholem famously recounted rejecting his parents’ assimilationist liberalism in favor of Zionism and immigrating to Palestine in 1923, where he became a central figure in the German Jewish immigrant community that dominated the nation’s intellectual landscape in Mandatory Palestine. Despite Scholem’s public renunciation of Germany for Israel, Zadoff explores how the life and work of Scholem reflect ambivalence toward Zionism and his German origins. Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction | The Metaphysical Clown -- Part 1 | â0Continuity of the Crisisâ0+: Hope and Disillusion (1923â031938) -- 1 | Cultural Contexts -- 2 | A Political Circle -- 3 | Religious Contexts -- Part 2 | The Unparalleled Catastrophe: Despair (1939â031948) -- 4 | Responses to the Holocaust -- 5 | The Journey to Salvage Looted Books and Manuscripts -- 6 | The Heart of Odysseus -- Part 3 | Ein Tiefes Heimweh: Nostalgia (1949â031982) -- 7 | Eranos -- 8 | Between Israel and Germany -- 9 | Berlin, Again The Finale -- Afterword | From Berlin to Jerusalem -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names Portrait Of German-born Israeli Philosopher And Historian, Gershom Scholem-- Noam Zadoff ; Translated By Jeffrey Green. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Portrait of German-born Israeli philosopher and historian, Gershom Scholem"-- Provided by publisher