LEADER 03956nam 22006375 450 001 9910162715103321 005 20210706142010.0 010 $a0-226-42877-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226428772 035 $a(CKB)3710000001022132 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4787536 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001653341 035 $a(DE-B1597)524518 035 $a(OCoLC)969646415 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226428772 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001022132 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGershom Scholem $eAn Intellectual Biography /$fAmir Engel 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aStudies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 300 $aIncludes index. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter 1. The Stories of Gershom Scholem --$tChapter 2. Writing the Myth of Exile: In Search of Political Rejuvenation, 1913-1918 --$tChapter 3. Messianism as Symbol: The Lurianic School and the Emergence of a Mystical-Political Society --$tChapter 4. When a Dream Comes True: Zionist Politics in Palestine, 1923-1931 --$tChapter 5. Against All Odds: Sabbatean Belief and the Sabbatean Movement --$tChapter 6. For the Love of Israel: The Turn from the Fringe to the Mainstream of Zionist Thinking --$tChapter 7. The Man and the Image --$tIndex 330 $aGershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the vast literature of Jewish mystical lore into a rich assortment of stories that unveiled new truths about the modern condition. Positioning Scholem's work and life within early twentieth-century Germany, Palestine, and later the state of Israel, Engel intertwines Scholem's biography with his historiographical work, which stretches back to the Spanish expulsion of Jews in 1492, through the lives of Rabbi Isaac Luria and Sabbatai Zevi, and up to Hasidism and the dawn of the Zionist movement. Through parallel narratives, Engel touches on a wide array of important topics including immigration, exile, Zionism, World War One, and the creation of the state of Israel, ultimately telling the story of the realizations-and failures-of a dream for a modern Jewish existence. 410 0$aStudies in German-Jewish cultural history and literature (Chicago, Ill.) 606 $aJewish scholars$zGermany$vBiography 606 $aJewish scholars$zIsrael$vBiography 606 $aZionism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMysticism$xJudaism 610 $aExile. 610 $aGerman Jewish culture. 610 $aGershom Scholem. 610 $aHistoriography. 610 $aHomecoming. 610 $aJewish mysticism. 610 $aMyth. 610 $aZionism. 615 0$aJewish scholars 615 0$aJewish scholars 615 0$aZionism$xHistory 615 0$aMysticism$xJudaism. 676 $a296.092 700 $aEngel$b Amir$0918757 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162715103321 996 $aGershom Scholem$92060333 997 $aUNINA