The Messianic idea in Judaism and other essays on Jewish spirituality / Gershom Scholem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982.

Contributor:

Meyer, Michael A.

Halkin, Hillel, 1939-

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Messiah--Judaism.

Messiah.

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 376 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Schocken Books, [1971]

Contents:

Toward an understanding of 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 the Dönmeh (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 the thirty-six hidden just men

The star of David: history of a symbol

Revelation and tradition of religious categories 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.

Notes:

Michael A. Meyer translated ten of the seventeen essays. Hillel Halkin translated on from Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acc.# 2539

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy is "Fourth Printing, 1978".

Potok Collection copy is paperbound, 21 cm. and "Schocken Books SB362".

Potok Collection copy has bookmark from Penn Center Books with ms. annotations laid in.

ISBN:

0805203621

OCLC:

145591