Judaica 6 Die Wissenschaft vom Judentum

by Gershom Scholem

Das oft zitierte Manifest zur Erforschung der Kabbala wird mit dem vorliegenden Band ebenfalls zugänglich gemacht. Damit vereinigt Judaica 6 Scholems wichtigste programmatische Schriften und vermittelt dem Leser eine Vorstellung von der konsequenten Radikalität, mit der sich Gershom Scholem der Wissenschaft vom Judentum verpflichtet sah.

110 pages, Hardcover

First published October 27, 1997

About the author

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.