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Biography Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem (December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982), also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian raised in Germany. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Scholem is best known for his collection of lectures, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941) and for his biography Sabbatai Zevi, the Mystical Messiah (1973). His collected speeches and essays, published as On Kabbalah and its Symbolism (1965), helped to spread knowledge of Jewish mysticism among non-Jews.
He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1958 and was elected president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1968.
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 1941
Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and the Talmudic Tradition 1960
Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem "Eichmann in Jerusalem: Exchange of Letters between Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt", in Encounter 22/1 (1964)
The Messianic Idea in Judaism and other Essays on Jewish Spirituality translated 1971
Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah 1973
From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth. Trans. Harry Zohn, 1980.
Kabbalah, Meridian 1974, Plume Books 1987 reissue: ISBN 0-452-01007-1
Walter Benjamin: the Story of a Friendship. Translated from German by Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1981.
Origins of the Kabbalah, JPS, 1987 reissue: ISBN 0-691-02047-7
On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead : Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah 1997
The Fullness of Time: Poems (translated by Richard Sieburth)
On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays
On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism
"Tselem: The Representation of the Astral Body" translated by Scott J. Thompson (1987)
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