From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth
Condition: SECONDHAND
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This book describes life in an assimilated German-Jewish family before World War I. It is a book peopled with such notable figures as S.Y. Agnmon, S.H. Bergman, Walter Benjamin, S.D. Goitein, Franz Rosenzweig, Zalman Shazar, and Ernst Simon. Scholem's memoirs explore his student days in Germany and his rediscovery of Jewish mysticism, his decision to emigrate to Palestine, and his career as one of the greatest Hebrew scholars of the modern era.
Author: Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Format: Paperback, 178 pages, 140mm x 210mm, 248 g
Published: 1988, Schocken Books, United States
Genre: Autobiography: Religious & Spiritual
This book describes life in an assimilated German-Jewish family before World War I. It is a book peopled with such notable figures as S.Y. Agnmon, S.H. Bergman, Walter Benjamin, S.D. Goitein, Franz Rosenzweig, Zalman Shazar, and Ernst Simon. Scholem's memoirs explore his student days in Germany and his rediscovery of Jewish mysticism, his decision to emigrate to Palestine, and his career as one of the greatest Hebrew scholars of the modern era.