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Scholem, Gershom Gerhard; Rom, Shemuel : HA-RA`YON HA-MESHIHI BE-YISRAEL: YOM `IYUN LE-REGEL MELOT SHEMONIM SHANAH LE-GERSHOM SHALOM, 24-25 BE-KISLEV, 738

8vo. 262 pages. In Hebrew. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Messiah – Judaism – congresses; Redemption – Judaism – congresses; Philosophy, Jewish – congresses; Philosophy, medieval – congresses; Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, 1897-1982 – congresses; Zohar – congresses. SERIES: Kitve ha-Akademyah ha-leumit ha-Yisreelit le-mada`im, ha-Hativah le-mada`e-ha-ruah; Variation: Kitve ha-Akademyah ha-leumit ha-Yisreelit le-mada`im, ha-Hativah le-mada`e-ha-ruah. Scholem (1897-1982) , born in Berlin, was a leading authority in Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. He joined the Zionist movement as a student, and believed that this “implied a thorough understanding of the full historical, religious, and cultural tradition of Judaism, to the study and interpretation of which he henceforward devoted himself. ” He studied at Berlin, Jena, Berne, and Munich, and earned his doctorate in 1922. After WWI, Scholem was part of the faculty of several academic institutions in Israel, and “[i]n 1962 he was elected vice-president and in 1968 president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was a consulting editor to the Encyclopaedia Judaica. ”(Werblowsky, EJ) Top corner bumped, very good condition. (HEB-4-2)

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