Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
1897, Berlin, Germany — 1982, Jerusalem, Israel
Germany · Israel
Gershom Scholem is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Gershom Scholem, born into an assimilated German-Jewish family and a committed Zionist, single-handedly established the modern academic study of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His rigorous historical work made a long-dismissed body of Jewish thought a serious scholarly field, which is why he is profiled among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. He was Jewish.
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Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
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