Gershom Scholem

Master of the Kabbalah

David Biale

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Yale University
14 August 2018

Biography; Biography: general

Series: Jewish Lives

A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as a legitimate academic discipline, he overturned the rationalist bias of his predecessors and revealed an extraordinary world of myth and messianism. In his youth, he rebelled against the assimilationist culture of his parents and embraced Zionism as the vehicle for the renewal of Judaism in a secular age. He moved to Palestine in 1923 and participated in the creation of the Hebrew University, where he was a towering figure for nearly seventy years.

David Biale traces Scholem’s tumultuous life of political activism and cultural criticism, including his falling-out with Hannah Arendt over the Eichmann trial. Mining a rich trove of diaries, letters, and other writings, Biale shows that his subject’s inner life illuminates his most important writings. Scholem emerges as a passionately engaged man of his times - a period that encompassed two world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust.

By: David Biale
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780300215908
ISBN 10: 0300215908
Series: Jewish Lives
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 August 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Biale is Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History, the co-author of Hasidism: A New History, and a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

Reviews for Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah

David Biale's ability to capture and illuminate a 'life' in its full and manifold aspects for so complex and multi-faceted a man is a major achievement. A superb, much-awaited biography. -Steven Aschheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- Steven Aschheim