On Jews and Judaism in Crisis - Softcover

Scholem, Gershom Gerhard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805209549 ISBN 13: 9780805209549

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Essays, letters, and articles written by the distinguished Jewish scholar over a fifty-year period show him confronting, studying, and judging important ideas, events, and figures of twentieth-century Judaism

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Praise for Gershom Scholem and "On Jews and Judaism in Crisis"

"These essays, dealing as they do with modern Jewish history, literature, and religion, sustain a continuity of conviction that cannot help but inspire a new generation of Jewish intellectual life.""New York Times Book Review"

"There is a revelation in storefor the Jewish reader who has not previously encountered Scholem, and even for the non-Jewish reader concerned about the meaning and preservation of peoplehood in the twentieth centuryOn the meaning and problems of Israel, on the search through tradition for seeds of rebirth, on the resurrection of Hebrew, on the possibility of a modern Jewish theology, on the Jewish relationship to history, Scholem is precise, passionate, skeptical, wholly original.""Kirkus Reviews"

"Gershom Scholem is historian who has remade the worldHe is coming to be seen as one of the greatest shapers of contemporary thought, possibly the boldest mind-adventurer of our generation."Cynthia Ozick, "New York Times Book Review""

Praise for Gershom Scholem and On Jews and Judaism in Crisis

"These essays, dealing as they do with modern Jewish history, literature, and religion, sustain a continuity of conviction that cannot help but inspire a new generation of Jewish intellectual life."--New York Times Book Review

"There is a revelation in store...for the Jewish reader who has not previously encountered Scholem, and even for the non-Jewish reader concerned about the meaning and preservation of 'peoplehood' in the twentieth century...On the meaning and problems of Israel, on the search through tradition for seeds of rebirth, on the resurrection of Hebrew, on the possibility of a modern Jewish theology, on the Jewish relationship to history, Scholem is precise, passionate, skeptical, wholly original."--Kirkus Reviews

"Gershom Scholem is historian who has remade the world...He is coming to be seen as one of the greatest shapers of contemporary thought, possibly the boldest mind-adventurer of our generation."--Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Gershom Scholem: Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was born in Berlin, educated at the universities of Jena and Bern, and emigrated to Palestine in 1923, where he devoted himself to the study of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala. One of the greatest scholars of the twentieth century, admired both for his philological prowess and his philosophical insight, Scholem was the author of many books, including Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, and From Berlin to Jerusalem.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0805209549
• ISBN 13: 9780805209549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306