| Von Berlin Nach Jerusalem Und Zuruck: Gershom Scholem Zwischen Israel Und Deutschland 1. Auflage 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Zadoff, Noam (Author), Mach, Dafna (Translator) |
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ISBN: 352557035X ISBN-13: 9783525570357 Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht OUR PRICE: $65.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: German Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - History - Social Science | Jewish Studies |
| Physical Information: 416 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although Gershom Scholem presented his life in his autobiography as a one way movement from Berlin to Jerusalem, a closer look in mainly unpublished documents reveals a different picture. Since the moment of his arrival in Palestine in 1923 and until his death in 1982, he remained in close contact to the German speaking cultural and intellectual worlds. In the 1920ies and 1930ies he contributed to the Hebrew and Jewish cultural circles in Berlin, and even after the shock of the Holocaust he gradually returned to shorter and longer visits in Germany. In the postwar Federal Republic Scholem played a central role as a moral authority, who offered an alternative for young intellectuals to their corrupted fathers generation. By doing so, the German-Israeli intellectual served as a generational link, bridging over the abyss created by the Holocaust. For Scholem himself this return was the outcome of a long process of disillusionment with his Zionist utopia. |
