Stranger in a Strange Land

Informationen zum Autor George Prochnik was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in general non-fiction in 2021. He has written for publications such as the New Yorker and the LA Review of Books , and is the editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. 'Talk America' is an edited excerpt from I Dream with Open Eyes , forthcoming from Counterpoint Press. His books with Granta include Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem , which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize and was a New York Times 'Editor's Choice'. Klappentext A daring, singular biography of one of the great forgotten thinkers of the 20th century - Gershom Scholem, the founder of modern Kabbalah. Zusammenfassung A daring, singular biography of one of the great forgotten thinkers of the 20th century - Gershom Scholem, the founder of modern Kabbalah.

Product details

• Authors: George Prochnik, Prochnik George
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.08.2018
• EAN: 9781783781805
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-180-5
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Judaism / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism, mysticism, Judaism, Biography: religious & spiritual, Biography: religious and spiritual, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Non-Western philosophy, Judaism: mysticism