Son adhesion au mouvement sioniste alors quil etait encore etudiant lamena a sinteresser aux sou. In 1918 in bern he met elsa burchkardt who became his first wife. Gerhards father arthur was an assimilated jew and german nationalist, quite common among middleclass berlin jews at that time. Gershom scholem was born gerhard scholem in berlin in 1897. Ce signe renferme, definit et enlace les courants magnetiques du. In on the kabbalah and its symbolism, gershom scholem guides the reader through the central themes in the intricate history of the kabbalah, clarifying the relations between mysticism and established religious authority, the mystics interpretation of the torah and their attempts to discover the hidden meaning underlying scripture, the tension between the philosophical. This was the state of things when a young graduate student named gershom scholem decided to write a thesis on jewish mysticism. David biale university of california, davis duration. Institute of jewish studies university of antwerp recommended for you. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. I really started to understand and develop my knowledge and understanding of kabbalah after reading gershom scholem.
Writing the life of gershom scholem lecture by prof. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. The scholem family had lived in berlin since the early part of the nineteenth century. Lintellectuel gershom scholem gershom scholem 18971982 est lun des grands intellectuels juifs du xxe siecle. Gershom scholem was a professor of jewish mysticism at the hebrew university in jerusalem until his death in 1982.
The growing tide of zionist feeling of the period was, he has written, a partial spur to the revival of interest in kabbalah among scholars who saw mysticism as one more aspect of jewish expression, another facet of jewish nationhood. His close friends included walter benjamin and leo strauss, and selected letters. Franck arrives at the conclusion i am citing according to the german translation by adolph jellinek leipzig, 1844, 287 that the materials of the kabbalah were drawn from the theology of the ancient persians, but that this. Philologue, historien et theologien israelien, ne a berlin, gershom scholem etudia a berlin, a iena, a berne et a munich. Gershom scholem, who died in 1982, remains the biggest gun in kabbalah scholarship, and on the kabbalah and its symbolism is perhaps his most accessible book on the subject. December 5, 1897 february 21, 1982, was a germanborn israeli philosopher and historian. He studied hebrew and talmud with an orthodox rabbi scholem met walter benjamin in munich in 1915, when the former was seventeen years old and the latter was twentythree. Mar 14, 2017 this is a formula for religious anarchy, and scholem was perfectly aware of that implication.
What gershom scholem and hannah arendt can teach us about. It contains definitive essays on the relation of the torah to jewish mysticism, the mythology of the kabbalah, and the place of jewish mystics in the jewish community. On the kabbalah and its symbolism mysticism and kabbalah. Gerhard gershom scholem was born in berlin to arthur scholem and betty hirsch scholem. This is a formula for religious anarchy, and scholem was perfectly aware of that implication. Walter benjamin, hildegard herbold, gershom scholem. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of kabbalah. Scholem was a staunch zionist, and would emigrate to palestine in the 1920s. Gershom scholem was born in berlin, the son of a printer. Elle vise a faire sortir lame du plan terrestre pour lui faire atteindre le plan divin. On the kabbalah and its symbolism by gershom scholem. Scholem e rosenzweig sulla lingua ebraica, in rivista di storia della filosofia, 2 20, pp. Gershom scholem and the mystical dimension of jewish history. This is the best single book about kabbalah, its most important bsic ideas, its development, personalities and different topics.
His interest in judaica was opposed by his father, but his mother intervened and he was allowed to study hebrew and the talmud with an orthodox rabbi. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and hebrew at the university of berlin. Gershom scholem stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Les concepts sont exposes avec une clarte dexpression etonnante au. Among his most important works are major trends in jewish mysticism, the messianic idea in judaism, and on the kabbalah and its symbolism. As a young man, hed been attracted to political anarchism, especially as embodied in the work of. Scholem 18971982 tells a story about his early research that sums up the position of mysticism in judaic studies in weimar germany. He was the first professor of jewish mysticism at hebrew university of jerusalem.
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