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Judaica 4

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Büchern erlangten die drei Judaica betitelten Bände wohl die weiteste Verbreitung. Scholem, der den größten Teil seiner Arbeit der Erschließung eines fast vergessenen Forschungsbereichs, der jüdischen Mystik, widmete, sah seine historischen und philologischen Untersuchungen stets im Zusammenhang "mit der auf die Wiedergeburt des jüdischen Volkes als eines lebendigen Ganzen gerichteten Bewegung, durch die auch eine neue Sicht der jüdischen Geschichte möglich wurde". Davon zeugt auch der Band Judaica 4, der, wie die vorangegangenen, Aufsätze und Vorträge über die Kabbala mit solchen vereinigt, die aktuellen Fragen des jüdischen Lebens gelten.

296 pages, Hardcover

First published January 30, 1984

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Gershom Scholem

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Gerhard Scholem, who, after his immigration from Germany to Israel, changed his name to Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גרשם שלום), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His close friends included Walter Benjamin and Leo Strauss, and selected letters from his correspondence with those philosophers have been published.

Scholem is best known for his collection of lectures, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941) and for his biography Sabbatai Zevi, the Mystical Messiah (1973). His collected speeches and essays, published as On Kabbalah and its Symbolism (1965), helped to spread knowledge of Jewish mysticism among non-Jews.

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