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The Father of Jewish Mysticism
The Writing of Gershom Scholem
Daniel Weidner (Author), Sage Anderson (Translated by)
9780253062079
Hardback, published 4 October 2022
250 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.535 kg
This is a sophisticated, well-informed study of Scholem (1897–1982), who, as the book's title announces, is considered the father of Jewish mysticism. [It] is a valuable study of a remarkable personality and scholar.
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.