English world rights (Paul Dry Books), France (Albin Michel), Sweden (Faethon)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Chinese simplex rights (Lijiang), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Perspectiva), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Amphora Books), Japan (Hosei UP), Czech Republic (Periplum)
»Gershom Scholem is historian who has remade the world … He is coming to be seen as one of the greatest shapers of contemporary thought, possibly the boldest mind-adventurer of our generation.« Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review
»An extraordinary life – one that itself takes on symbolic, if not mystical, significance.« Robert Coles
»A remarkable book.« Harold Bloom
»[Scholem] vividly describes the spiritual and intellectual odyssey that drew him … to a rigorous immersion in the texts of Jewish tradition.« Library Journal
»Gershom Scholem is historian who has remade the world … He is coming to be seen as one of the greatest shapers of contemporary thought, possibly the boldest mind-adventurer of our generation.« Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review
»An extraordinary life – one that...
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Gershom Scholem
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...
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Poetica
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...
Correspondence 1939 - 1969
»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...
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Eterna Cadencia)
Correspondence – 1939-1964
English world rights (Chicago UP), Spanish world rights (Trotta), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Sanhui Publishing House), France (Seuil), Japan (Iwanami Shoten), Czech Republic (Filosofia), Israel (Babel)
Diaries, Essays and Sketches Until 1923
English world rights (for the selection »On Eduard Mörike's Nolten the Painter« / »On Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge«; Bamberger Books), France (Editions Rue D’Ulm)
Judaica VI
Diaries, Essays and Sketches Until 1923
France (Editions Rue D'Ulm)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (selection 1913 - 1919; Harvard UP)
Judaica V
Judaica IV
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...
France (Éditions du Cerf), Italy (selection; Giuntina), Sweden (selection; Faethon)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Japan (Sakuhin Sha)
On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism
English world rights (Schocken Books), Russian rights (Biblioteka Mikhaila Greenberga), Arabic world rights (Al Kamel), France (Payot & Rivages), Italy (Adelphi)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Siglo XXI), Poland (Aletheia), Czech Republic (Volvox Globator), Hungary (Hermit), Bulgaria (Bulgariski Haudozhnik), Romania (Humanitas), Croatia (Hlad I Sinovj), Serbia (Vuk Karadžić)
Judaica III
Spanish world rights (selection; Siruela), France (selection; Allia), Italy (selection; Adelphi), Brazilian Portuguese rights (selection; Perspectiva), Sweden (selection; Faethon)
Judaica I
Brazilian Portuguese rights (selection; Perspectiva), Sweden (selection; Feathon)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (selection; Calmann-Lévy)
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
English world rights (Schocken Books), Italy (Einaudi), Czech Republic (Argo), Hungary (Polaris)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Siruela), France (Payot & Rivages), Sweden (Symposion), Poland (Aletheia), Romania (Federatia Comunitatilor Evreiesti Din Romania), Israel (Miskal Publishing)
Sabbatai Zevi
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...
Italy (Adelphi), Turkey (Alfa)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Japan (Hosei UP)
The Shield of David
In 1948, the Shield of David – the Star of David – became the symbol of the newly founded State of Israel, the emblem on the Israeli national flag. That same year, Gershom Scholem retraces the astonishing career of this symbol in Jewish lore in an essay written in Hebrew. In 1963, he published a revised version of his essay in German in Judaica I. Shortly before his death...
