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On the Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time: And Other Essays Book

On the Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time: And Other Essays
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  • On the Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time: And Other Essays
  • Written by author Gershom Gerhard Scholem
  • Published by Jewish Publication Society, December 1997
  • In this collection of essays, we encounter a scholar passionately concerned with the cultural and spiritual renaissance of the Jewish people in its own land, a scholar whose concerns encompass issues of the cultural life, language, the meaning of scholars
  • This selection of essays by the great scholar Gershomn Scholem shows Scholem the man as well as Scholem the kabbalah scholar. Many of the issues he addresses in this book -- his relationship to and feelings about contemporary Israel, Jewish identity, pers
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Acknowledgments
Editor's Acknowledgments
Translator's Introduction
Introduction: The Dialectics of Continuity and Revolt
Pt. 1Scholem's Personal Relationship to the Study of Mysticism1
1A Candid Letter About My True Intentions of Studying Kabbalah3
2Reflections on the Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time6
3My Way to Kabbalah20
Pt. 2Zionism as Spiritual and Cultural Identity25
4Thoughts About Our Language27
5Exile Today Is Devoid of the Seeds of Redemption30
6A Lecture About Israel35
7Our Historical Debt to Russian Jewry40
8Understanding the Internal Processes45
Pt. 3The Existential Situation in Jewish Culture Today49
9Reflections on Modern Jewish Studies51
10A New Spiritual Perspective on the Exegesis of Primary Sources72
11What Others Rejected: Kabbalah and Historical Criticism75
12On Education for Judaism80
13Who Is a Jew?93
14Secularism and Its "Dialectical Transformation"100
15Messianism - A Never-Ending Quest102
16What Is Judaism?114
Pt. 4Judaism Through the Ages119
17The Historical Development of Jewish Mysticism121
18Memory and Utopia in Jewish History155
19The People of the Book167
20Three Types of Jewish Piety176
Pt. 5Reflections on His Contemporaries191
21On Kafka's The Trial193
22With a Copy of Kafka's The Trial - A Poem194
23Franz Rosenzweig and His Book The Star of Redemption197
24Does God Dwell in the Heart of an Antheist?216
Notes225
Glossary235
Index237


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