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The Father of Jewish Mysticism
eBook - The Writing of Gershom Scholem, New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
ISBN/EAN: 9780253062109
Umbreit-Nr.: 6350941
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 250 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 04.10.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
E-Book
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DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><i>The Father of Jewish Mysticism</i> offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (18971982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual.</p><p>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.</p><p>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,<i>The Father of Jewish Mysticism</i> introduces a young, soon-to-be legendary intellectual in search of himself and Judaism.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p>Daniel Weidner is Professor of Comparative Literature at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He is the author of<i>Bibel und Literatur um 1800</i>and editor of the<i>Handbuch Literatur und Religion, Blumenberg Lesen: Ein Glossar</i>, and<i>Profanes Leben: Walter Benjamins Dialektik der Säkularisierung</i>.</p>