Ce livre raconte la vie mouvementee de Moses Debruska (1754-1794), personnage enigmatique qui naquit dans un ghetto de Moravie, participa a la Revolution francaise et mourut sur l'echafaud. Eleve comme…

In this finely crafted critical biography, Amir Engel provides a corrective to much of the vast literature on the enigmatic, but highly influential, twentieth century figure Gershom Scholem. Engel contends…

-An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism…scholarly and complex.—Library Journal -An excellent work, clear and solidly documented by Joseph Dan on…

This correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem began after their student days in Berlin when Scholem emigrated to Palestine. Their correspondence draws the reader into…

A bilingual collection of poetry from pioneering scholar in Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Schoem

Traces the German-Hebrew language contact-zones in which Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft and Ludwig Strauss created in Germany and in Jerusalem in the 1920s and 30s. The author exposes the writings…

Gershom Scholem published many studies in the field of Jewish mysticism. In the 1930s, his scholarship turned to an obscure rabbi of seventeenth-century, Sabbatai Sevi, who aroused a fervent following…