Philosopher
Gershom Scholem
Overview
Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם; 5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was an Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Philosophers who discussed Gershom Scholem
- Mircea Eliade
- Leo Strauss
- Walter Benjamin
- Martin Buber
- Franz Rosenzweig
- Harold Bloom
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Gottlob Frege
- Hannah Arendt
- August Cieszkowski
- Moishe Postone
- Eugen Herrigel
Ideas Gershom Scholem discusses
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- History
- Franz Kafka
- Gnosticism
- German Empire
- Hebrew language
- Historian
- Philosophy
- Halakha
- Hasidic Judaism
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Jerusalem
- Jürgen Habermas
- Jewish philosophy
- Kabbalah
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- German philosophy
- Philosophy of history
- Sefer Yetzirah
- Middle Ages
- Marxism
- Maimonides
- Monotheism
- Mathematical logic
Place in the tradition
Part of Gnosticism.