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... broadly intellectual distance. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Judaism Hasidism mysticism history of scholarship Between the spring of 1940 and the summer of 1953, Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) and Abraham Joshua Heschel...

... . On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism . New York : Schocken . ———. 1971 . The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality . New York : Schocken . ———. 1971 . “The Neutralization of the Messianic Element in Early Hasidism.” In The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays...

... might say that the collector has a sense for what would have happened. In Benjamin’s writ- ings on Franz Kafka, we find a story that may help make better sense of this claim. I recount the story here in its entirety: In a Hasidic village, so the story goes, Jews were sitting together...

... defined revelation as the most pronounceable das( Aussprechlichste). In fact, Scholem’s turn away from Buber manifested itself in a fierce criticism of Buberian lived experience by arguing that it reduces Judaism and Zionism to an aesthetic concept and makes Hasidism socially acceptable (salonfähig...

... le clearly points to material for a “psychoanalytic” reading (on the level of the individual as well as of society), for a series of “politicocultural” readings (the nomads display traits of anti-Semites, of Hasidic Jews, of Jews “in general,” of Slavs, and even of bloodthirsty “ritual murder...