A Life in Letters, 1914-1982 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gershom Scholem
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Autobiography and letters
- Time of Work: 1914-1982
- Setting: Germany, Palestine, and Israel
- Principal Characters: Gershom Scholem, Betty Scholem, Werner Scholem, Arthur Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Politics, Twentieth century, Jews or Jewish life, Letter writing, Mysticism, Letters, Germany or German people, Israel or Israelis, Judaism, Middle East, Palestinian Arabs, Zionism, Cabala
- Locales: Germany, Israel, Palestine
Anthony David Skinner, a research fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Center of the Hebrew University, has gracefully and creatively accomplished a difficult intellectual project in this edition of letters by and to Gershom Scholem. Scholem was a founding scholar in the field of Jewish mysticism and a key figure in twentieth century Zionism in Palestine/Israel. Skinner has choreographed a sequence of letters in which Scholem’s voice emerges in dialogue with his family and with many of the most famous European thinkers of his era. These letters, as a dialogic encounter, illuminate not only...
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