Gershom Scholem: 14 books

Book cover of Greetings From Angelus
by Gershom Scholem
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018

A bilingual collection of poetry from pioneering scholar in Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Scholem. With this volume, Scholem's work reaches beyond the confines of the academy and enters a literary dialogue with writers and philosophers like Walter Benjamin and Hans Jonas. Gershom...
Book cover of The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
by Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of correspondence.             Arendt and...
Book cover of From Berlin to Jerusalem

From Berlin to Jerusalem

Memories of My Youth

by Gershom Scholem, Moshe Idel
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

"A serene, lucid and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates a vanished world."—Times Literary Supplement "An extraordinary life—one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance." —Robert Coles From Berlin...
Book cover of Le Messianisme juif

Le Messianisme juif

Essais sur la spiritualité du judaïsme

by Gershom Scholem
Language: French
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Élément décisif de la compréhension juive de l’Histoire, l’attente messianique a connu au cours des temps les expressions les plus diverses. Gershom Scholem étudie dans cet ensemble d’essais les mutations profondes qu’elle a subies, l’apparition des nombreuses utopies qu’elle a suscitées,...
Book cover of Martin Buber interprete dell'ebraismo
by Gershom Scholem
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Martin Buber (1878-1965) è stato uno dei massimi intellettuali ebrei del XX secolo. Figura complessa e controversa – infaticabile narratore di storie e leggende chassidiche, autore decisivo nel rinvenire i lineamenti di un pensiero dialogico, impegnato per tutta la vita in una nuova versione tedesca...
Book cover of Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

The Story of a Friendship

by Gershom Scholem
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012

Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century’s most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became...
Book cover of The Messianic Idea in Judaism

The Messianic Idea in Judaism

And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality

by Gershom Scholem
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011

Gershom Scholem was the master builder of historical studies of the Kabbalah. When he began to work on this neglected field, the few who studied these texts were either amateurs who were looking for occult wisdom, or old-style Kabbalists who were seeking guidance on their spiritual journeys. His work...
Book cover of I segreti della Creazione
by Gershom Scholem
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 3, 2014

C’è un cuore nella Qabbalah: è lo "Zohar", il «Libro dello splendore», un immenso e rapsodico commento alla "Torah" nato sul finire del tredicesimo secolo in ristretti circoli cabbalistici castigliani e destinato a imporsi come opera principe di una intera letteratura, che...
Book cover of Le tre vite di Moses Dobrushka
by Gershom Scholem
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 22, 2014

Dai ghetti moravi alla corte imperiale di Vienna, dalle salmodie cabbalistiche agli idilli pastorali, dal traffico d'armi ai club giacobini, dalle logge massoniche alla ghigliottina: le tappe della vita avventurosa di Moses Dobrushka si leggono come altrettanti capitoli di un romanzo d'ap­pen­di­ce,...
Book cover of Il nichilismo come fenomeno religioso
by Gershom Scholem
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2016

Religioso è quel nichilismo che in particolari momenti di crisi si presenta in nome di esigenze religiose e pretende di essere una religione. Se ogni religione è una risposta al problema della morte, non ogni nichilismo è negazione della vita. Dallo gnosticismo e misticismo del cristianesimo alla...
Book cover of La figura mistica della divinità

La figura mistica della divinità

Studi sui concetti fondamentali della Qabbalah

by Gershom Scholem
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 2, 2015

«La dottrina della creazione dell’uomo a immagine (tzelem) di Dio (Gn, 1, 26), già in sé alquanto problematica per la teologia monoteistica, offrì ai mistici il termine tecnico per una concezione che aveva ormai una parentela molto remota con l’idea biblica. Ai cabbalisti premeva sapere in...
Book cover of On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead

On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead

Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah

by Gershom Scholem
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011

"Scholem's treatment is complex and stylistically brilliant as he systemically analyzes the history and intellectual background of these critical ideas. Highly recommended."--Library Journal.
Book cover of Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
by Gershom Scholem
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011

A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today.
Book cover of Sabbatai Ṣevi

Sabbatai Ṣevi

The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676

by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai Ṣevi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Ṣevi was an obscure...
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