Zohar, Book of Splendour

gershom-scholem

Religion & Spirituality

Rider

The author traces his friendship with the philosopher and critic, Walter Benjamin, from their youth in Berlin to Benjamin's death in 1940 and includes selections from their letters

Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship

History

Jewish Pubn Society

The eminent Jewish scholar recalls the chief events and people of his Berlin childhood, the circumstances leading to his migration to Palestine, and his initial responses to his new homeland

From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth

Schocken Books

"Scholem's treatment is complex and stylistically brilliant as he systemically analyzes the history and intellectual background of these critical ideas. Highly recommended."--Library Journal.

On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah

Judaism

Schocken

Kabbalah (Library of Jewish knowledge)

Quadrangle/The New York Times Company

Kabbalah

Scholarship and rigor mark this magnum opus by the esteemed Gershom Scholem, who did work on Kabbalah back when such activity was in disrepute among Jewish scholars of his rank. It is here where Scholem, who was associated with Hebrew University in Jerusalem, made his name, and his publications, usually short articles, laid the groundwork for a respectable study of the field. Scholem's KABBALAH is a major work, which opens with a large, encyclopedia-entry-length overview essay, in which he explains the Zohar, or Book of Splendor, and its influence, especially among Hasidic Jews. He follows with articles on various topics in Jewish mysticism, and then includes articles on key personalities, such as Sabbatei Sevi (on whom Scholem has written an entire book). While KABBALAH by Gershom Scholem it is not an easy read, it rewards those who venture forth.

Doreset Press

Seven papers originally delivered at the annual Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, August 1972. This revised and expanded edition includes, for the first time in English translation, Gershom Scholem's paper on "Colors and their Symbolism in Jewish Tradition and Mysticism" and Henry Corbin's paper on "The Realism and Symbolism of Colors in Shiite Cosmology."

Color Symbolism: The Eranos Lectures

Arts & Photography

Toshihiko Izutsu

Ottmann, Klaus

Henry Corbin

Adolf Portmann

René Huyghe

Ernst Benz

Dominique Zahan

History & Criticism

Spring Publications

Letters to Werner Kraft

Bamberger Books

Judaica IV

Suhrkamp Verlag

Briefe an Werner Kraft (German Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Suhrkamp

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