Quote from Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem:   Master of the Kabbalah

by David Biale 

Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2018          232 pages 




The reader will find here an account of [Scholem’s] life with an attempt to understand him from within. By using diaries and letters, I have engaged with his most important writings in an effort to integrate them into his life. As such, this is the study of an extraordinary thinker: not an ethereal intellectual but a fully embodied person, filled with passions and paradoxes, much as he described Judaism itself.”  (p. xi)

-- quote submitted by Shirley C.


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