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What you need to know about Gershom Scholem,
This review is from: Gershom Scholem (Modern critical views) (Hardcover)
This book, edited by Harold Bloom for the Modern Critical Views series (Chelsea House), contains an introduction and 11 essays that provide a fundamental introduction to the Jewish historian/historiographer/thinker Gershom Scholem and his work. Readers will learn a little about Scholem's life and a good deal about his work.
What did he work on? (Jewish mysticism and messianism) Why? (an excellent question) Why was it important material? (On one hand, it relates to 20th-century Jewish debates about resistance to persecution and national renaissance. On the other hand, his interpretation of mysticism tied it to modernism as a phenomenon.) What made Scholem's work special? (He totally revised existing views of Jewish mysticism and literally invented the field of modern Kabbalah studies.) Also, for those who do not have time to read Scholem's masterworks on Kabbalah or on Sabbatai Zevi (Sevi), several essays tell you what you need to know (via Scholem) about medieval Jewish mysticism and about this critical figure from Jewish history. Essays include: "Introduction" by Harold Bloom "Scholem and Sabbatianism" by Robert Alter "The Achievement of Gerhsom Scholem" by Robert Alter "Theology, Language, and History" by David Biale "From Schweitzer to Scholem: Reflections on Sabbatai Svi" by W. D. Davies "Gershom Scholem's Ten Unhistorical Aphorisms on Kabbalah: Text and Commentary" by David Biale "The Fourth Sparrow: The Magisterial Reach of Gershom Scholem" by Cynthia Ozick "The Greatness of Gershom Scholem" by Hyam Maccoby "Gershom Scholem's Reconstruction of Early Kabbalah" by Joseph Dan "Aspects of Scholem's Study of Hasidism" by Louis Jacobs "Gershom Scholem as Zionist and Believer" by Arthur Hertzberg "Scholem: Unhistorical or Jewish Gnosticism" by Harold Bloom
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