Gershom Scholem
An Intellectual Biography
- Contents
- Review Quotes

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. The Stories of Gershom Scholem
2. Writing the Myth of Exile: In Search of Political Rejuvenation, 1913–1918
3. Messianism as Symbol: The Lurianic School and the Emergence of a Mystical-Political Society
4. When a Dream Comes True: Zionist Politics in Palestine, 1923–1931
5. Against All Odds: Sabbatean Belief and the Sabbatean Movement
6. For the Love of Israel: The Turn from the Fringe to the Mainstream of Zionist Thinking
7. The Man and the Image
Index
I would like to suggest, with some fear and trembling, that Scholem’s ideas can show a way out of this impasse. Amir Engel’s book, the best of this lot in my view, presents Scholem’s thought as beginning with a youthful enthusiasm and settling into a mature caution."
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