Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah

by David Biale

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300215908
• ISBN13: 9780300215908
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.4"