The and other essays on Jewish spirituality Scholem, Gershom 1897-1982 creator text bibliography nyu New York Schocken Books [1971] 1971 monographic eng mul

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viii, 376 p. 21 cm. Contents: Toward Understanding the Messianic Idea in Judaism -- The Messianic Idea in Kabbalism -- The Crisis of Tradition in Jewish Messianism -- Redemption Through Sin -- The Crypto-Jewish Sect of Donmeh (Sabbatians) in Turkey -- A Sabbatian Will from New York -- The Neutralization of the Messianic Element in Early Hasidism -- Devekut, or Communion with God -- Martin Buber's Interpretation of Hasidism -- The Tradition of Thirty-six Hidden Just Men -- The Star of David: History of a Symbol -- Revelation and Tradition as Religious Catergories in Judaism -- The Science of Judaism, Then and Now -- At the Completion of Buber's Translation of the Bible -- On the 1930 Edition of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption -- The Politics of Mysticism: Isaac Breuer's New Kuzari -- The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovot. [by] Gershom Scholem. Ten of the seventeen essays translated from German and one from Hebrew. Includes bibliographical references. Messiah Judaism Judaism History BM 615 .S33 1971 296 70130212 DLC 710622 20151117170516.0 4545760