Scholar and Kabbalist

Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem
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Contents
Scholar and Kabbalis: An Introduction
Part 1: The Researcher: Jewish Mysticism
	1 Gershom Scholem’s Methodologies of Research on the Zohar
	2 Adventurer, (Pseudo?)-Kabbalist, and Theosophist: Gershom Scholem’s Research on Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld
	3 For the Sake of a Jewish Revival: Gershom Scholem on Hasidism and Its Relationship to Martin Buber
	4 “Words of Substance Must Have Both One Meaning and Another”: Reappraising the Scholem–Weiss Debate
Part 2: Philosophical Context, Literary and Cultural Connections
	5 Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah and the German–Jewish Myth
	6 The Zohar as Poetic Inspiration: Nelly Sachs’s Reading of Gershom Scholem
	7 “Our Sabbatian Future”
	8 The Impact of Sabbatianism on Society and Culture in the Yishuv and in Israel
	9 Scholem’s Views on Art and His Approach to Art History
Part 3: Biographical Portraits
	10 The Scholem Family in Germany and German–Jewish Historical Context
	11 Gershom Scholem and Postwar Germany Reconsidered
Part 4: The Librarian, Book Collector and Library Owner
	12 Making the Dewey Jewey: Gershom Scholem as a Librarian
	13 Spiritual Sources for Zion: Gershom Scholem and the Salvage of Looted Books and Manuscripts after the Holocaust
	14 The Alacritous Work of Librarians and the Insane Labor of Collectors: Gershom Scholem as Book Collector and Librarian—A Collection of Sources
Index