Шолем, Гершом

Gershom Scholem AKA Gershom Scholem Germany /Israel 1897 – 1982

Teachers: Rabbi Akiva; Rabbi Isaac Luria; Isaac the Blind; Sabbatai Zevi; David Reubeni; Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld; Thomas von Schoenfeld; Mircea Eliade; Walter Benjamin; Leo Strauss; Gottlob Frege; Friedrich Nietzsche; Maimonides; Baruch Spinoza ; Moses de Leon; Students: Henry Corbin; Chuck Furnace; Jorge Luis Borges; Umberto Eco; Jacques Derrida; Harold Bloom of Yale; Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben; George Steiner; Michael Chabon, author; Friends: Martin Buber; Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Hayim Nahman Bialik; Ahad Ha'am; Zalman Shazar; Elsa Burckhardt, 1st wife; Fania Freud, 2nd wife; Jürgen Habermas; Enemies: Hannah Arendt; Organizations: Author: doctoral thesis on the oldest known kabbalistic text, Sefer ha-Bahir; Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 1941; Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and the Talmudic Tradition, 1960; Arendt and Scholem, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: Exchange of Letters between Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt", 1964; The Messianic Idea in Judaism and other Essays on Jewish Spirituality, trans. 1971; Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1973 on Sabbatai Zevi; From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth, 1980; Kabbalah AKA Qasbalah, 1974; Walter Benjamin: the Story of a Friendship, 1981; Origins of the Kabbalah,, 1987; On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah, 1997; The Fullness of Time: Poems; On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays; On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism; selem: The Representation of the Astral Body, 1987; Zohar — The Book of Splendor; Comments: Jewish Scholar ; contemporary Qabalist and Hebrew scholar; Historian; Theology; Zionist; taught the Qabalah and mysticism ; the mythical and mystical components were at least as important as the rational ones; Sabbatianism; Lurianic Kabbalah (sp); Hasidism; Jewish gnosticism ; Gnostic; Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershom_Scholem; http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/1126/features/gershom-scholem-30-years-on/;