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This first-time publication of the correspondence between Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt is a unique contemporary historical document: a discussion on crucial questions of Jewish history and self-image after the Shoah led by two of the 20th century’s most significant thinkers of Jewish extraction.
»Jews die in Europe and they are buried like dogs.« This is how the letter ends in which Hannah Arendt informs Gershom Scholem in October 1940 that Walter Benjamin has taken his life while escaping from the Nazis. In times of greatest danger, a correspondence begins that is underpinned by a commitment to the work of their mutual friend and in which, from New York and Jerusalem, the world of European Judaism is always kept in sight. On behalf of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, whose aim it was to save Jewish cultural assets stolen by the Nazis, Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem travelled for the first time back to Germany in the early post-war years. This largely unknown chapter in both their histories is documented in the letters and hitherto unpublished reports by Hannah Arendt of her 1949/50 journey through Germany. In 1963, Hannah Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem was published. In it, her criticism of Jewish representatives during the time of the Shoah was thoroughly rejected by Gershom Scholem in a public controversy. The dialogue that they had maintained for over two decades ended in silence.
»A unique document of contemporary history and of the German-Jewish mind in the twentieth-century.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
»These letters illuminate the historical record by placing into context and documenting not only the profound differences between these powerful personalities but also their commonalities, shared activities, interests, and loyalties. (One hopes that English and Hebrew translations of this correspondence are forthcoming.)« Jewish Review of Books
»Now that the full correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem has finally been published, we can begin to understand the contours and dynamics of a relationship that was always complex. These letters illuminate the historical record by placing into context and documenting not only the profound differences between these powerful personalities but also their commonalities, shared activities, interests, and loyalties.« Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
»A unique document of contemporary history and of the German-Jewish mind in the twentieth-century.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
»These letters illuminate the historical record by placing into context and documenting not only the profound differences between these powerful personalities but also their commonalities, shared activities, interests, and loyalties. (One hopes that English and Hebrew translations of this correspondence are forthcoming.)« Jewish Review of...
Gershom Scholem, 1897 – 1982, established a new strand of research with his work: the academic exploration of Jewish mysticism that opened up a new understanding of Jewish history. His work has been translated into 40 languages. His correspondences with Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt are legendary.
Gershom Scholem, 1897 – 1982, established a new strand of research with his work: the academic exploration of Jewish mysticism that opened...
Gershom Scholem’s name goes beyond the frontiers of Jewish Studies into the history of Jewish mysticism and Messianic Judaism. It is less well known that during his lifetime Scholem was intensely involved with poetry and translation as well as with philological questions on the theory of language. This edition shows the literary side of the famous academic. It provides a comprehensive and...
»I really like him and we find that we have an awful lot to say to each other« Gershom Scholem wrote to Walter Benjamin in 1938. With »he« Scholem meant Theodor W. Adorno, the man whom...
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How did Gershom Scholem, the great scholar and researcher of Jewish mysticism, assess Judaism’s chances of survival in a secularised world? The two texts in this volume shed light on this...
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Among Gershom Scholem’s works, the three volumes of the Judaica probably achieved the widest circulation. The publication of a fourth volume, which Scholem planned, was prevented by...
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The correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem spans from March 1933 to February 1940. The letters document the last period in Benjamin’s life: the problems of material existence,...
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»In the Zohar and other writings of the Kabbalah, Jewish mystics developed concepts and symbols to help them penetrate secrets of the cosmos that cannot be understood through reason or...
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In his opus magnum Scholem reconstructs a biography that had a unique impact on the history of Judaism. The history of the Jewish faith, of mysticism and Kabbala, thousands of years old, form the...
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