Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem () (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Scholem is acknowledged as the single most significant figure in the recovery, collection, annotation, and registration into rigorous Jewish scholarship of the canonical bibliography of mysticism and scriptural commentary that runs through its primordial phase in the ''Sefer Yetzirah,'' its inauguration in the ''Bahir,'' its exegesis in the ''Pardes'' and the ''Zohar'' to its cosmogonic, apocalyptic climax in Isaac Luria's ''Ein Sof'' that is known collectively as Kabbalah.
After generations of demoralization and assimilation in the European enlightenment, the disappointment of messianic hopes, the famine of 1916 in Palestine, and the catastrophe of the Final Solution in Europe Scholem gathered and reassembled these sacred texts from many of the archives that had been disarranged, orphaned, confiscated under Nazi rule or otherwise washed up in Genizah cataloging the flood of fragments and disordered, decontextualized manuscripts into an annotated and relatively organized sequence of texts available to scholars and seekers within the reception of this tradition. Many other Jewish scholars assisted in this process of recovery once it was underway, but it is broadly recognized that Scholem initiated this process of textual and archival recovery and rebirth.
As Scholem points out in his memoirs, the canon of sacred Jewish writings from the diaspora and the Middle Ages (re: "Kabbalah") had fallen into such a state of disrepair and oblivion—fragmented and effaced by persecutions from without as well as contortions, conversions and schisms from within Judaism—that many of the "finest writings..." from the major currents of Jewish mysticism could only be found in long block quotations in antisemitic texts, where some "nincompoop who had quoted and translated the most wonderful, the most profound things," had assembled them "in order to decry them as blasphemies." (This was a strong, somewhat exaggerated statement for expressive effect that Scholem attributes to Ernst Bloch in his memoirs—but there he co-signs the sentiment and appropriates it as his own description of the state of affairs in other places.)
Thanks to Scholem's efforts, and those of his students and colleagues, the confused and inscrutable condition of Kabbalistic bibliography and provenance would be significantly remedied after the end of the World Wars and the foundation of the modern state of Israel where Scholem worked as head librarian of the National Library in Jerusalem. Provided by Wikipedia
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Zürich, Rhein-Verlag, 1962
Zürich, Rhein-Verlag, 1962
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München : C.H. Beck, 1994
München : C.H. Beck, 1994
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[Tel-Aviv, 1956
[Tel-Aviv, 1956
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New York : Meridian, 1974
New York : Meridian, 1974
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Tel Aviv : ʻAm ʻoved, 1991
Tel Aviv : ʻAm ʻoved, 1991
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New York ; Scarborough, Ontario : New American Library, 1978
New York ; Scarborough, Ontario : New American Library, 1978
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München : C.H. Beck, 1994
München : C.H. Beck, 1994
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Frankfurt am Main : Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002
1. Auflage.
Frankfurt am Main : Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002
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Yerusalem : M. Byaliḳ, [publisher not identified], 1974
Yerusalem : M. Byaliḳ, [publisher not identified], 1974
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[Tel-Aviv], [publisher not identified], 1956
[Tel-Aviv], [publisher not identified], 1956
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Berlin : W. de Gruyter, 1962
Berlin : W. de Gruyter, 1962
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