Description
The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual.
Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem's thought. Scholem, a historian ofthe Kabbalah and sharp critic of Jewish assimilation, played a major role in the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism.
Through his work on the Kabbalah, Scholem turned the closed world of mystical texts into a force for Jewish identity. Skillfully drawing on Scholem's early diaries and writings, The Father of Jewish Mysticism introduces a young, soon-to-be legendary intellectual in search of himself and Judaism.
Author: Daniel Weidner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780253062086
ISBN10: 025306208X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Jewish
- History | Jewish | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General
About the Author
Daniel Weidner is Professor of Comparative Literature at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He is the author of Bibel und Literatur um 1800 and editor of the Handbuch Literatur und Religion, Blumenberg Lesen: Ein Glossar, and Profanes Leben: Walter Benjamins Dialektik der Säkularisierung.
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