Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem by George Prochnik

Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

George Prochnik

544 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem--the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah--Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with a...

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