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... 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...

..., Scholem and Heschel were engaged in defining in starkly different directions the meaning of Jewish intellectual history and theology in the twentieth century. In particular, the two men attributed a significantly different role in Jewish history to kabbalah and imagined in divergent ways its purpose...

... 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...

..., or otherwise deactivate this core, out of which the wise man takes action. This core is the attitudinal core of every reliable theorist. A striking report in the Russian tradition of Kabbalah (a tradition that emerges from a Halberstadt school in the nineteenth century) designates precisely what is at stake...

..., “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...

... . Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-history . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1982 . Benjamin Walter . The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910–1940 . Edited by Scholem Gershom and Adorno Theodor , translated by Jacobson Manfred R. and Jacobson Evelyn M...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...