On Jews and Judaism in crisis
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Gershom Scholem ; edited by Werner J. Dannhauser
Contributors: Dannhauser, Werner J.
Edition: 1st Paul Dry Books ed.
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781589880740
Subjects: Jews; History
Description: This book presents Gershom Scholem confronting, studying, and judging the important 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Schocken Books, [1976].