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...Lina Barouch This article examines Gershom Scholem's 1917–18 essay “On Lamentation and Dirges” in the context of his early writings on language between 1916 and 1926. During this period Scholem applauded the “silent language of lamentation” and warned of the loss of lament in a language that had...

...Yaacob Dweck This article traces the connections between Gershom Scholem and the United States. It opens with a narrative history of Scholem's visits to the United States before and after World War II and then discusses the reception of his postwar writings in the United States. Finally, it turns...

...Willem Styfhals The story of the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and his disloyal student Jacob Taubes was one of continuing intellectual quarrel and personal enmity. Their intellectual disagreements centered on Jewish messianism, but the significance of this issue for Taubes’s...

...Steven E. Aschheim Victor Klemperer, Hannah Arendt, and Gerhard Scholem were three formidable German Jewish intellectuals with radically different conceptions of German identity, liberalism, Marxism, Jewishness, and Zionism and who confronted the great crises of their times with greatly divergent...

...Amir Engel This article offers a critical reading of Gershom Scholem's memoir, From Berlin to Jerusalem , by contrasting it with the memoir of another German Jewish intellectual, Salomon Maimon. Ostensibly, these two memoirs tell opposite stories. Maimon (1753–1800) grew up in an orthodox...

...Lotte Houwink ten Cate Abstract This article, based on unpublished materials from the Scholem Library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the digitized Arendt Papers at the New School, New York, seeks to illuminate Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem’s long friendship, their exchange about...

...Emanuel Fiano; Samuel J. Kessler This study makes available for the first time five previously unknown letters from Gershom Scholem to Abraham Joshua Heschel, sent between 1940 and 1953. A contextualizing introduction precedes a transcription and annotated English translation of the original Hebrew...

...Benjamin Lazier This essay traces the origins of the contemporary interest in “political theology” and focuses on the work of Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem, and Jacob Taubes in particular. They offer three competing instrumentalizations of the concept; they alert us to a dimension of the problem...

... at the heart of Walter Benjamin’s early discussion of tradition. His peculiar reference to “Talmudic wit” and to Kant as a tradendum in letters to Scholem, alongside related Jewish sources, and his engagement with Kant in “On the Program of the Coming Philosophy” are used to address these questions. Thus...

..., including Ernst Bloch, Erich Unger, Hugo Ball, and Gershom Scholem. This article describes the place of anarchism in Benjamin’s work, particularly in the fragment “World and Time” (1919) and in the essay on surrealism (1929), as a rhetorical double inversion, in which two reversals reconceptualize anarchist...

... . Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Tiedemann Rolf Schweppenhäuser Hermann . Vol. 2 . 1 , Aufsätze, Essays, Vorträge . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . Benjamin Walter . 1994 . The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin , edited by Scholem Gershom Adorno Theodor W. , translated...

... and capitalist society. 9 Unger’s lectures appear to have left a deep impression on Benjamin. His praise of Politics and Metaphysics appears in a letter to his friend Gershom Scholem from January 1921, where he reports of these lectures: “Just now I have gained familiarity with a book which is, insofar...

... to the attention of Gershom Scholem the following proposal of Brod: “‘The category of holiness . . . is the only suitable category under which Kafka’s life and work can be viewed’” (SW, 3:322–23). Kafka’s castle will not open to the keys of biography, let alone of hagiography. Brod’s error, however, lay...

... efforts to come to grips with Paul’s messianism. Taubes developed his notion of the Mysterium Judai- cum thinking about Paul not only in relation to Schmitt’s notion of the “katechontic form of existence” but also in relation to Gershom Scholem’s notion that the “price” of Jewish messianism was “a life...

... jüdische Literatur.” Contrary to Kracauer and Fink, who focused on the Bible translation, Walter Benjamin may have had a similar recognition regarding the Star or its structure. While reading the book for the first time in 1921, Benjamin wrote to Gershom Scholem that it “necessarily exposes...

... period.” 2 Other readers, most notably Thomas Mann and Gershom Scholem, were less positive in their assessment, but they were no less convinced of the book’s historical significance. 3 Goldberg had a classical humanistic Gymnasium education, and, under the tutelage of his learned Orthodox...

... in relation to human helplessness and weakness informs political ideologies—in this case, the repudiation of helplessness through a form of rationalism. Andy was at that time reading Gershom Scholem on Walter Benjamin, and we agreed that a certain hardness came through in Scholem’s commentary...

... both, Agamben turns back to the critique by the German Jewish thinkers Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, and, most recently, Jacob Taubes and his Paulinian exigency.6 As Vivan Liska notes, “Agamben’s writing belongs to the political-theological tradition of the twentieth century...

.... Scholem Gershom . 2015 . Briefwechsel , edited by Angermann Asaf . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . Ahrens Jörn Fleming Paul Martin S. Vedder Ulrike , eds. 2016 . “Doch ist das Wirkliche auch vergessen, so ist es darum nicht getilgt”: Beiträge zum Werk Siegfried Kracauers...

..., Fenves can cite no evidence to support his view. Benjamin’s essay refers to Unger twice. Within the essay on violence Benjamin makes five references to Sorel. Gershom Scholem refers to Benja- min’s reading of Sorel, how Benjamin had commended Sorel’s book to Scholem, and the long time Benjamin had...