Search -
On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays
On Jews and Judaism in Crisis Selected Essays Author:Gershom Scholem, Werner J. Dannhauser "Gershom Scholem is a 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, The New York Times Book ReviewOn Jews and Judaism in Crisis presents Gershom Scholem confronting, studying, and judging the importa... more »nt ideas, events, and figures of twentieth-century Judaism. It includes essays on Martin Buber, S. Y. Agnon, and Scholem's friend Walter Benjamin; also his famous 1964 letter to Hannah Arendt. In a 1975 interview, Scholem provides fascinating information about his own life.« less