Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem Dictionaries engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir

engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir

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Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem Dictionaries engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoirA collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today. A crucially vital work in the long history of Jewish esoteric spirituality. Aside from its intrinsic importance, the books influence has been enormous, and is likely to continue all but indefinitely. As much as the stories and parables of Kafka, Scholems work helped inaugurate Jewish gnosticism on our era. Harold Bloom, Yale