On Jews and Judaism in Crisis

by Scholem, Gershom; Dannhauser, Werner J.

• ISBN13: 9781589880740
• ISBN10: 1589880749
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-13
• Publisher: Paul Dry Books Inc

Summary

Essays, letters, and articles written by the distinguished Jewish scholar over a fifty-year period. Includes three essays on Walter Benjamin.

Author Biography

Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was born in Berlin and educated at the Universities of Berlin, Jena, Bern, and Munich. In 1923, he immigrated to Palestine, where he devoted the rest of his life to the study of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala. In Jerusalem, he was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University and served as president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Scholem was the author of many books, including Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, and From Berlin to Jerusalem (also now available from Paul Dry Books).

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	p. vii
With Gershom Scholem: An Interview	p. 1
Jewish Youth Movement	p. 49
Farewell: An Open Letter to Dr. Siegfried Bernfeld	p. 54
Against the Myth of the German-Jewish Dialogue	p. 61
Once More: The German-Jewish Dialogue	p. 65
Jews and Germans	p. 71
S. Y. Agnon-The Last Hebrew Classic?	p. 93
Agnon in Germany: Recollections	p. 117
Martin Buber's Conception of Judaism	p. 126
Walter Benjamin	p. 172
Walter Benjamin and His Angel	p. 198
Two Letters to Walter Benjamin	p. 237
Israel and the Diaspora	p. 244
Reflections on Jewish Theology	p. 261
On Eichmann	p. 298
Eichmann
Letter to Hannah Arendt
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