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    Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as...
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    with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah...
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    interest in Kabbalistic texts led primarily by the Jewish historian Gershom Scholem has inspired the development of historical research on Kabbalah in...
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    Hebrew language, it is given as מטיטור (mṭyṭwr) or מיטטור (myṭṭwr). Gershom Scholem argues that there is no data to justify the conversion of metator to...
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    was a print shop owner. His brother was Gershom Scholem. In their youth,, Werner and Gerhard (later Gershom) were members of the Zionist youth-movement...
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  • Scholem, derived from the Hebrew word shalom, meaning "peace", is a surname, and may refer to: Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), also known as Gerhard Scholem...
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  • Puritanism, radical Anabaptism, Jacobinism, and lastly Salafi-Jihadism). Gershom Scholem (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher...
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  • Schocken Books is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works. Originally established in 1931 by Salman...
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  • Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms...
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    4th-century synagogues and Christian churches in the Galilee region. Gershom Scholem writes that the term "seal of Solomon" was adopted by Jews from Islamic...
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