Father of Jewish Mysticism - The Writing of Gershom Scholem

The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual.
Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem's thought. Scholem, a historian ofthe Kabbalah and sharp critic of Jewish assimilation, played a major role in the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism.
Through his work on the Kabbalah, Scholem turned the closed world of mystical texts into a force for Jewish identity. Skillfully drawing on Scholem's early diaries and writings, The Father of Jewish Mysticism introduces a young, soon-to-be legendary intellectual in search of himself and Judaism.

About the author

Daniel Weidner is Professor of Comparative Literature at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He is the author of Bibel und Literatur um 1800 and editor of the Handbuch Literatur und Religion, Blumenberg Lesen: Ein Glossar, and Profanes Leben: Walter Benjamins Dialektik der Säkularisierung.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Weidner
• Assisted by: Sage Anderson (Translation), Susan Jane Anderson (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780253062079
• ISBN: 978-0-253-06207-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: New Jewish Philosophy and Thou
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous