... Amir Engel The genius of Gershom Scholem is largely beyond dispute. Even his fiercest critics admire his integrity and dedication, among other qualities.1 Yet one of Scholem’s greatest accomplishments has gone mostly unnoticed. Scholem portrayed his Zionism and his attraction to the kabbalah...

... to his reflections on American writers and scholars in the final third of his career. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Gershom Scholem Kabbalah Sabbatai Sevi Jewish mysticism America References Abrams Daniel . 2000 . “Defining Modern Academic Scholarship: Gershom...

... of modern scholarship on kabbalah, with a concluding chapter on the place of Hasidism in the mystical trajectory. 23 Beginning two years after Heschel’s five-year run of seminal work (1950–55), Scholem’s run (1957–62) solidified his own scholarly legacy. 24 In the early 1950s, while Heschel...

... grandfather, he was also trained from his early youth in both biblical and rabbinic literature. Quite unusually for someone so young, he began studying the Kabbalah from the age of five. 4 He was deeply read in mathematics, mathematical logic, and philosophy. After completing Gymnasium in 1906, Goldberg...

... of Kabbalah (a tradition that emerges from a Halberstadt school in the nineteenth century) designates precisely what is at stake. A learned man had created a golem near Minsk. He had grown to love its intelligence. On the fortieth day he could not separate from him. The artificial intelligence, moreover, grew...

..., “Abulafia”; Jacobson,Metaphysics , 114–22; and Mosès, AH. 36. David Biale, Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-history, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), 113. Lina Barouch  11 espousing this view as a point of departure, I...

... of the perceived errors of metaphysical thinking. To place time immanent to God’s eternity, he draws on pantheistic theories in Spinoza, German idealism, and Lurianic kabbalah.48 The relation- ship of human time to sacred time is achieved through liturgical repetition, which “keeps apace” with the cyclic...

... Jewish renaissance in Palestine.” 20 In 1941 Scholem wrote that Arendt was “a wonderful woman and an extraordinary Zionist.” 21 The Shoah marked a sharp breach with Scholem’s earlier political activity and stance for binationalism and turned his academic focus (as a kabbalah scholar) from...

... that they are living at the same time as those around them.”6 For Bloch, space and time do not exist as part of a linear continuum but rather—in categories borrowed from both Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and the Lurianic Kabbalah—are relative concepts subject to the same forces of bending...

... of time that consists of perpetual deferral (an idea Agamben finds in the writings of Benjamin’s friend Gershom Scholem, the noted scholar of the kabbalah).27 The absent referent of this deferral in Mommsen’s Block is the unwrit- ten fourth volume, the book whose coming-into-being was obstructed...

... am Main : Suhrkamp , 1980 . Barth Karl . The Epistle to the Romans . Translated by Hoskyns Edwyn C. . London : Oxford University Press , 1972 . Biale David . Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-history . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1982...

... after having read Scholem’s book On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism: You are a blessed man because you have achieved a harmony of mind and heart on such a high level, and you are a blessing to every Jew now living. As a consequence, you have the right and the duty to speak up...

... of the most famous texts referring to tradition in rabbinic literature. The first two chapters of tractate Avot in the Mishnah (known in English also as “The Sayings of the Fathers”) are commonly understood as presenting a chain of tradition, of kabbalah and mesira , of reception and transmission...

.... He asserted that he was attracted by Islam’s Bildung, its encouragement of individual cultivation of reason and spiritual potential lead- ing to a society founded on race-blind universalism. As many Weimar Jews adopted the antirational ideals of modernism, romanticism, kabbalah (Jewish 54...

... was actually indebted to Jewish mysticism, he claimed, because Jakob Böhme had been influenced by the kabbalah, and in turn his Swabian pietism had influenced the Tübingen seminarians G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Schelling, and Friedrich Hölderlin. The content of this mysticism was the human fulfillment...