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    Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as...
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    with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah...
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    Hebrew language, it is given as מטיטור (mṭyṭwr) or מיטטור (myṭṭwr). Gershom Scholem argues that there is no data to justify the conversion of metator to...
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    interest in Kabbalistic texts led primarily by the Jewish historian Gershom Scholem has inspired the development of historical research on Kabbalah in...
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  • Scholem, derived from the Hebrew word shalom, meaning "peace", is a surname, and may refer to: Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), also known as Gerhard Scholem...
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  • Puritanism, radical Anabaptism, Jacobinism, and lastly Salafi-Jihadism). Gershom Scholem (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher...
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    was a print shop owner. His brother was Gershom Scholem. In their youth,, Werner and Gerhard (later Gershom) were members of the Zionist youth-movement...
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    Retrieved 2024-04-29. Scholem, Gershom. The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem. Schocken. Scholem, Gershom. "Letter to Shalom Spiegel...
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  • Schocken Books is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works. Originally established in 1931 by Salman...
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  • Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (category Books by Gershom Scholem)
    of the Jewish Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem, published in 1941. In his introduction to Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Scholem blames Jewish scholars of...
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  • Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms...
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    here. Beginning with the correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (or possibly before that, when Martin Buber became one of Franz Kafka's...
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  • by Walter Benjamin, in response to a series of questions raised by Gershom Scholem in a conversation that began at a villa in the German countryside at...
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    Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the first incumbent of the Gershom Scholem Chair in Jewish Mysticism at The Hebrew University. Dan was born in...
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  • traditions for the birth of the Messiah. Rifa N. Bali (2008), pp. 91-92 Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah: 1626-1676, Routledge Kegan Paul...
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    4th-century synagogues and Christian churches in the Galilee region. Gershom Scholem writes that the term "seal of Solomon" was adopted by Jews from Islamic...
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  • major themes of modern-day research on Kabbalah; see the works of Gershom Scholem and Moshe Idel for more information. There is a striking affinity between...
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    Ra'ya Meheimna, were composed by a 14th century imitator. According to Gershom Scholem and other modern scholars, Zoharic Aramaic is an artificial dialect...
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  • this is impossible in connection with the "Ein Sof". According to Gershom Scholem, the Ein Sof is the emanator of the ten sefirot. Sefirot are energy...
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    of Solomon's Seal later made its way into Islamic Arab sources, as Gershom Scholem (the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah) attests "It...
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  • Rosenzweig (to whom Strauss dedicated his first book), as well as Gershom Scholem, Alexander Altmann, and the Arabist Paul Kraus, who married Strauss's...
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    יהודה ליבס; born 1947) is an Israeli academic and scholar. He is the Gershom Scholem Professor Emeritus of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
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  • mysticism and the Hekhalot literature. The text was first edited by Gershom Scholem (1965). An English translation by Janowitz can be found in her Poetics...
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  • regular routine can have a spiritual dimension. Both Arthur Koestler and Gershom Scholem accused Herrigel's book of being influenced by and justifying the politics...
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    original on 2024-01-19. Scholem, Gershom G. Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition. Scholem, Gershom G. (1987). Werblowsky, R...
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     44.[full citation needed] Bali (2008), pp. 91–92. Scholem (1973), pp. 678–681. Scholem, Gershom. "Shabbetai Zevi". Encyclopaedia Judaica. pp. 348–350...
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  • the academic study of Jewish mysticism, pioneered by scholars like Gershom Scholem, continues to explore its historical, textual, and philosophical dimensions...
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  • Union Army Gershom Powers (1789–1831), American politician Gershom Schocken (1912–1990), Israeli journalist and politician Gershom Scholem (1897–1982)...
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    ISBN 978-0838636602. "Dybbuk", Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 10 June 2009 Gershom Scholem. "Dibbuk". Encyclopaedia Judaica. See A. Sáenz-Badillos & J. Elwolde...
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    an important role in the history of Jewish mysticism: the scholar Gershom Scholem wrote, "The main subjects of the later Merkabah mysticism already occupy...
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