Podcasts about Gershom Scholem

Wie können wir ein hebräisches Gebet ins Deutsche übersetzen, wie können wir Spuren der Stimme Gottes hören, und welche Gefahren birgt die Säkularisierung der Heiligen Sprache in Palästina? Dies ist nur ein Teil der Fragen, die der junge Gershom Scholem in den Jahren 1916–1928 zu beantworten versuchte, bevor er sich dem Studium der Kabbala widmete. In seiner kürzlich erschienenen Monografie „Fragen der Sprache in Gershom Scholems Frühen Schriften“ hat Ghilad H. Shenhav – Koordinator des Zentrums für Israel-Studien und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur der LMU – Scholems frühe Schriften auf ihre Relevanz für aktuelle theologische, politische und genderbezogene Debatten untersucht.

J.J. and Gila Fine analyze the literary character of Talmudic women and uncover a counter history of Bruriah. Follow us on Bluesky @jewishideaspod.bsky.social for updates and insights!Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice.We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.org  For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcastsNoam Zadoff is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of Gershom Scholem: from Berlin to Jerusalem and Back (Brandeis, 2017) and many other scholarly works that deal with a wide array of subjects in recent Jewish History. 

J.J. and Dr. Noam Zadoff methodically demistify Gershom Scholem's iconoclastic but influential views about Sabbateanism and its causal connection to just about every contemporary element of Jewish life. Follow us on Bluesky @jewishideaspod.bsky.social for updates about messiahs, true and false. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice!We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.org  For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcastsNoam Zadoff is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of Gershom Scholem: from Berlin to Jerusalem and Back (Brandeis, 2017) and many other scholarly works that deal with a wide array of subjects in recent Jewish History. 

We define our symbols and our symbols define us. When considering the Star of David as a Jewish symbol, one has to head out on a journey through the centuries and across the globe to understand how a widespread geometric configuration became such a powerful defining image of the Jewish people – to our enemies and to ourselves. Join us from Jerusalem to Rome to Morocco to Prague to Basle, Switzerland as we explore the Star of David and our Jewish journeys. Links for Additional ReadingThe Curious History Of The Six-Pointed Star: How The “Magen David” Became The Jewish Symbol, Gershom Scholem, Commentary, September 1949Star of David: Birth of a Symbol – Legends vs. Facts, ANU – The Museum of the Jewish People, 1 February 2018Star Of David, Erin Parfet, Shalom Learning Center, 4 April 2024Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Saverio Campanini"Cabbalisti cristiani"Gershom ScholemAdelphiwww.adelphi.itTre saggi acuminati che illustrano il fascino esercitato dalla Qabbalah sui lettori cristiani d'ogni tempo.A cura, e con un saggio, di Saverio Campanini.Che la Qabbalah sprigioni un fascino difficilmente spiegabile è fuori di dubbio: chiunque entri in contatto con essa si sente interpellato, come se quelle oscure dottrine non aspettassero altri per sciogliere gli antichi nodi dell'irradiazione divina. Un fascino cui non hanno potuto sottrarsi molti lettori cristiani – da Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ai platonici rinascimentali, da Knorr von Rosenroth a Isaac Newton, dagli alchimisti ai «fratelli muratori» –, che con i dogmi segreti della mistica ebraica hanno avvertito una profonda affinità. Massimo studioso della Qabbalah, Gershom Scholem non ha mancato di dire la sua su questa robusta corrente del pensiero europeo. Persuaso com'era che la Qabbalah fosse la quintessenza dell'ebraismo, Scholem ha tentato di denunciare la sua versione cristiana come illegittima, frutto di un malinteso o di una frode, giungendo tuttavia a riconoscere, alla fine della vita, che la passione per quegli insegnamenti esoterici era stata accesa in lui proprio dalla lettura di un cabbalista cristiano. E così, nei tre illuminanti saggi qui raccolti, non solo troveremo una storia di quel pensiero sotterraneo, ma potremo anche scorgere in filigrana una riluttante autobiografia.Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) è una delle massime figure nel campo degli studi ebraici, in particolare della mistica, in cui ha tracciato nuovi percorsi di ricerca. Oltre che autore di opere fondamentali sulla Cabbalà, è stato docente universitario e ha svolto un'intensa attività di conferenziere.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

This episode is sponsored by Nishmat, the Jeanie Schottenstein Center for Advanced Torah Study for Women, whose Online Beit Midrash returns on Sept. 8. Women of all backgrounds can learn Talmud, Tanach, Halacha, and more from the comfort of home. For a full class schedule and registration, go here. In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to historian and professor Pawel Maciejko about the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi, Sabbateanism, and the roots of Jewish secularism. Gershom Scholem, the scholar of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, saw a connection between the 17th-century messianic movement of Sabbateanism and the later movement of Jewish secularism. Was he right? In this episode we discuss:What was the impact of Sabbateanism after its messianic fervor died down? How can studying Jewish history deepen one's connection with Judaism? What is Frankism, and why is it a fascination of present-day antisemitic conspiracy theorists?Tune in to hear a conversation about what the rupture from the Sabbatean movement can teach us about the wide range of Jewish identities we see today. Interview begins at 16:07.Pawel Maciejko is an associate professor of history and Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. Between 2005 and 2016 he taught at the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first book, The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1816, was awarded the Salo Baron Prize by the American Academy of Jewish Research and the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.References:Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought by David BialeMakers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made edited by Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, and Idith Zertal “The Holiness of Sin” by Gershom ScholemMishnah Chagigah 2Ezekiel 1Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism by Elliot R. WolfsonSabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity edited by Pawel MaciejkoThe Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816 by Pawel Maciejko“The Messianic Feminism of Shabbatai Zevi and Sarah Ashkenazi” by Jericho VincentOn Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg“A Portrait of the Kabbalist as a Young Man: Count Joseph Carl Emmanuel Waldstein and His Retinue” by Pawel Maciejko“Gershom Scholem's dialectic of Jewish history: the case of Sabbatianism” by Pawel MaciejkoSeforimchatter's Sabbatai Zevi SeriesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/18forty-podcast--4344730/support.

Oh boy...This episode is longer than usual, more contentious, as it addresses the current genocidal violence in Gaza in ways that neither 'the left' nor 'the right,' as they are now called (defined?), would stand behind; except perhaps with a dagger?..We are both against what Israel is doing in Gaza, and think it ought to stop immediately (which would still be much much too late).Our discussions, our rhetoric, our frameworks of understanding, however, are neither neutral nor universal. They involve issues that precede "universal categories" of "racism" - on either "side" - to show western eyes what they cannot see about this global problem.Sagi calls it "metaphysical antisemitism," a term he borrowed from Gershom Scholem, but developed much (too much?) further. Accounts of this problem, here and now, cannot hide behind the tried and true tropes - of 'evil,' 'the right side of history,' etc. - but are viewed in a particular historical lens. Particular, because it presupposes Jewish specificity, but not to justify Israel's actions, or the manner(s) of Palestinian resistance to them. To do that we need a metaphysically sensitive analysis as to what underpins tropes like "anti-zionism," "Islamophobia" and the likes. Just because "we hate Nazis" does not necessarily mean we're on the right side of history.Just because Hitler accelerated the evacuation of a Christian, antisemitic Europe of Jews to the ancient land of Kna'an, does not make this land Zion (yet), nor him the Messiah.What can the present situation teach us, from our, Jewish, perspective, about this knot? How do we explain, without explaining away, the terrible cycle of murderous, genocidal violence that has erupted in Israel/Palestine? Probing these problems might help shine a light on a tragic impasse, where true things - real facts, real pain, real history - are employed for fallacious reasons, and yet persist (for the inaccessible truths that still burn, silent, within them). Here we try to understand the situation in a way that does not flatten the discourse to "human rights"; it demands a greater responsibility to difference than that tired (and by now at least faltering, if not highly suspect) 'humanism' that allows Christian mora frameworks to gloss over their own metaphysical assumptions, and violence. You know, like the idea of the Nation State being a solution -- imposed, by various means, upon the rest of the "civilized world" -- to an intra-Christian problem (that it did not solve). We are not anti-Christian, however, for, as the wise man said, they know not what they do. Instead of platitudes or tired binaries, here we try to think through these phenomena as conflagrations produced by a complex system of violence-erasure, a violence by other means, if you will, a violence delegated, farmed-out, rationally contracted and brutally enforced. And made invisible.The 'Colonialism' levelled at Israel hides metaphysical assumptions that need to be spelled out if the sides that truly matter, that truly suffer, in this murderous, brutal impasse - the Israeli and the Palestinian - are to be able to find common ground and a way out of this cycle. So long as the hatred that fueled the worst atrocities of October 7th, and that chants "from the river to the sea" will not be listened as to its - decidedly non-antisemitic - drive; so long as Israel's claim to self-defense is either accepted as a carte blanche for violence, or dismissed as irrelevant to this issue, the impasse will remain.We are trying to find a way out of this impasse.Cancel if you must,butlisten, if you can.

What is Qabalah? This is a scholarly exploration of Hermetic Qabalah, an esoteric tradition steeped in history and rich in spiritual practice. This detailed video presentation covers the evolution of Hermetic Qabalah from its origins in ancient Jewish mysticism through its adaptation in Christian and Renaissance thought to its pivotal role in contemporary Western esotericism. We start by defining Hermetic Qabalah and distinguishing it from Jewish Kabbalah and Christian Cabala, highlighting the unique blend of mysticism, philosophy, and theology that characterizes each form. Discover how figures like Giovanni Pico della Mirandola influenced the Christian reinterpretation of Kabbalistic ideas and how these ideas permeated Renaissance thought. The video further delves into the core structure of the Tree of Life, explaining its symbolic representation of the universe's spiritual and material aspects. Learn about the sefirot, the paths that connect them, and their implications for personal and spiritual development. We will also cover primary texts like the Zohar and Sepher Yetzirah, their historical significance, and their roles in the practice of Qabalah. Additionally, we explore the modern application of Hermetic Qabalah in traditions such as Thelema and its integration into practices like modern Witchcraft and the Golden Dawn system. CONNECT & SUPPORT

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem, and philosopher Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, if fraught with unique tensions on the fringes of the long-divided holy city. After the war, despite the weight of the Shoah, the neighborhood miraculously repaired shattered bonds between German and Israeli residents. In German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City (Haus Publishers, 2021), Thomas Sparr opens up the history of this remarkable community and the forgotten borderland they called home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem, and philosopher Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, if fraught with unique tensions on the fringes of the long-divided holy city. After the war, despite the weight of the Shoah, the neighborhood miraculously repaired shattered bonds between German and Israeli residents. In German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City (Haus Publishers, 2021), Thomas Sparr opens up the history of this remarkable community and the forgotten borderland they called home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem, and philosopher Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, if fraught with unique tensions on the fringes of the long-divided holy city. After the war, despite the weight of the Shoah, the neighborhood miraculously repaired shattered bonds between German and Israeli residents. In German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City (Haus Publishers, 2021), Thomas Sparr opens up the history of this remarkable community and the forgotten borderland they called home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem, and philosopher Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, if fraught with unique tensions on the fringes of the long-divided holy city. After the war, despite the weight of the Shoah, the neighborhood miraculously repaired shattered bonds between German and Israeli residents. In German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City (Haus Publishers, 2021), Thomas Sparr opens up the history of this remarkable community and the forgotten borderland they called home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem, and philosopher Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, if fraught with unique tensions on the fringes of the long-divided holy city. After the war, despite the weight of the Shoah, the neighborhood miraculously repaired shattered bonds between German and Israeli residents. In German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City (Haus Publishers, 2021), Thomas Sparr opens up the history of this remarkable community and the forgotten borderland they called home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem, and philosopher Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, if fraught with unique tensions on the fringes of the long-divided holy city. After the war, despite the weight of the Shoah, the neighborhood miraculously repaired shattered bonds between German and Israeli residents. In German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City (Haus Publishers, 2021), Thomas Sparr opens up the history of this remarkable community and the forgotten borderland they called home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/israel-studies

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem, and philosopher Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, if fraught with unique tensions on the fringes of the long-divided holy city. After the war, despite the weight of the Shoah, the neighborhood miraculously repaired shattered bonds between German and Israeli residents. In German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City (Haus Publishers, 2021), Thomas Sparr opens up the history of this remarkable community and the forgotten borderland they called home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem, and philosopher Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, if fraught with unique tensions on the fringes of the long-divided holy city. After the war, despite the weight of the Shoah, the neighborhood miraculously repaired shattered bonds between German and Israeli residents. In German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City (Haus Publishers, 2021), Thomas Sparr opens up the history of this remarkable community and the forgotten borderland they called home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/van-leer-institute

Franz Kafka var tog avstånd från mycket av den tro och kultur han fostrades i. Samtidigt var han något av en judisk mystiker. Ulrika Björk reflekterar över motsättningen. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.I novellen ”Det hemliga miraklet” från 1939 skildrar den argentinske författaren Jorge Luis Borges ögonblicket då huvudpersonen Jaromir Hladík, en tjeckisk judisk författare, erfar ett mirakel. Under tyskarnas inmarsch i Prag grips författaren och döms till döden för sina arbeten om den judiska mystiken. Natten innan avrättningen ber han Gud förlänga hans liv med ett år för att fullborda en oavslutad tragedi. När den dödsdömde nästa morgon står inför exekutionspatrullen stannar den fysiska världen upp, samtidigt som hans tankar pågår som vanligt. Med minnet som dokument slutför författaren under ett år dramat, varpå patrullens fyrfaldiga salva kastar honom till marken.Borges magiska realism – där den gripbara världen sammansmälter med en drömlik verklighet – för vidare en modernistisk genre som författaren Franz Kafka etablerade. Kafka föddes i Prag 1883 och växte upp i en assimilerad judisk borgerlig familj. Vid sin död 1924 hade han ett sextiotal skrifter bakom sig och tre ofullbordade romaner. Med juridisk precision gestaltar hans litteratur tillvarons labyrintiska absurditet.Kafkas stora genombrott kom efter hans död, men en av dem som läste honom under hans livstid var historikern och auktoriteten på judisk mystik Gershom Scholem. Enligt honom vittnar författarskapet om den moderna människans vilsenhet genom att förmedla ett särskilt judiskt förhållande till traditionen i en värld där Gud har dragit sig undan. Kafka är en ”kättersk kabbalist” skriver Scholem i ett brev till vännen Walter Benjamin.Kabbala är det hebreiska ordet för 'tradition' och kommer från verbet för 'att ta emot'. Det är också namnet på en medeltida mystisk lära om den skapande guden som drar sig samman för att ge utrymme åt sin skapelse. Samma gud strålar också ut i världen och uppenbarar sig i tingen. Men hos Kafka kan den fördolde gudens uppenbarelse inte längre erfaras. Allt som återstår är ett meningslöst tomrum.En rad ur det självbiografiska Brevet till fadern – som kom ut först på 1950-talet – verkar bekräfta Kafkas hållning till sitt judiska arv: ”Något bättre sätt att förvalta detta arv än att så fort som möjligt frigöra sig från det kunde jag inte komma på; just en sådan frigörelse tycktes mig vara det mest pietetsfulla”, skriver sonen. Brevet till fadern är en oförsonlig uppgörelse med en förtryckande far och dennes slentrianmässiga religiositet. Den ger därför röst åt upplevelsen av traditionsförlust. Även om fadern fått med sig ”en viss judendom” från sin hemby saknar den i sonens ögon ett egenvärde för fadern och kan därför inte förmedlas.Bilden av Kafka som en internationell modernist var länge förhärskande. Men mot slutet av det kalla kriget började han citeras på den kritiska scenen och som nära förbunden med sitt historiska Prag. För Vaclav Havel var Kafka en förebild. Och i en inflytelserik studie från 1974 byggde de franska filosoferna Gilles Deleuze och Félix Guattari en teori kring en dagboksanteckning från 1911 där han hänvisar till ”de små nationernas litteratur” och den egna förtrogenheten med jiddisch. Boken Kafka. För en mindre litteratur påminde om att Kafkas transnationella tillhörighet var både språklig och politisk – han publicerade sig i samma österrikiska tidskrifter som den politiska sionismens grundare Theodor Herzl.Den språkliga historien – den judiska, tjeckiska och tyska – blev nu en del av den kritiska Kafkatolkningen, och den dolda traditionen i Kafkas egna texter började framträda. Tänk till exempel på den lilla varelsen Odradek i novellen ”Familjefaderns bekymmer” från 1919. Medan vissa hävdar att namnet Odradek är av slaviskt ursprung anser andra att det är tyskt, får vi veta, men ingen kan säga säkert. Själva varelsen är en platt stjärnformad trådspole överdragen med trådändar av skiftande slag och färger. Genom sin konstruktion kan den stå för sig själv på två ben men tycks aldrig ha haft något egentligt ändamål. Den är meningslös och ändå fullbordad. Det är det som bekymrar familjefadern, som undrar om varelsen kommer att överleva honom själv och rulla framför fötterna på hans barn och barnbarn.I en hyllning till Kafka tio år efter hans död tolkar Walter Benjamin Odradek som spåret av en bortglömd centraleuropeisk judisk tradition. Den lilla varelsen sätter oss i kontakt med en förnationell värld – inte slavisk, inte tysk, men formad av båda. Vissa uttolkare menar att novellen väver in Kafkas egna översättningar av hebreiska böner.I en annan novell omtolkar Kafka myten om Babels torn. I ”Stadsvapnet” från 1920 avbryts tornbygget inte genom en högre makts ingripande, som i den bibliska berättelsen. Nej, det är storheten i själva idén om ett torn som räcker upp till himlen som förlamar krafterna och får Babels människor att skjuta fullbordandet på framtiden.Byggandet av tornet misslyckas därför att det inbegriper föreställningen att tiden är gränslös, harlitteraturvetaren Stéphan Mosès föreslagit i en tolkning från 1992. Som Kafka skriver var det som om man ”räknade med att kunna hålla på i århundraden”. Berättelsen står därför i kontrast till Borges novell om den judiske författaren i Prag. I ”Det hemliga miraklet” är tiden förtätad till ett enda ögonblick: stunden då den fysiska världen stannar upp och författaren fullbordar sin tragedi i minnet.I skärningspunkten mellan de två novellerna finner Mosès en historiesyn som han förbinder med mellankrigstidens tysk-judiska generation och kallar ”den historiska tidens aktualisering”. Sedan upplysningen hade den europeiska filosofin dominerats av tanken att historien rör sig framåt. Historia betydde kontinuitet, kausalitet och vetenskapliga framsteg. Istället för att (i Hegels och Marx efterföljd) optimistiskt tänka sig historien som en rörelse mot mänsklighetens fulländning hndlar ”den historiska tidens aktualisering” om en diskontinuerlig historia. Vad Kafka och hans generation såg var att historien består av ögonblick som inte låter sig totaliseras. De erkände att kriser, avbrott och slitningar kan vara mer avgörande – till och med mer löftesrika – än en skenbar enhetlighet. Även om tidigare tänkare har uppmärksammat nuets verklighet rör det sig här inte om en flyktig övergång mellan förflutenhet och framtid, nupunkter i en tidslig kedja, utan om en tid som exploderar i otaliga messianska ögonblick. Som hemliga mirakel uppstår de messianska ögonblicken mellan den oändligt förlängbara yttre tiden i Kafkas tolkning av tornbygget och den förtätade inre tiden i Borges berättelsen om den dödsdömde författaren. Och de nämns redan i Talmud, enligt Scholem – samlingen av de allra tidigaste judiska bibelkommentarerna. Där liknas tiden vid änglar ”som återskapas i varje ögonblick i otaliga mängder för att sjunga sin hymn inför Gud innan de förstörs och försvinner i intet.”Ulrika BjörkfilosofLitteraturRobert Alter. Omistliga änglar: tradition och modernitet hos Kafka, Benjamin och Scholem. Översättning: Daniel Pedersen. 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Dans ce premier épisode, on a tenté de comprendre les liens d'amitié qui déraillent : quand on n'a plus le même mode de vie, des avis politiques divergents, que le ton monte dans les débats, et qu'on a le sentiment de ne plus rien avoir en commun. Comme si on atteignait un point de rupture... On est allé relire certains livres qui font du bien et discuter avec des ami-e-s pour comprendre comment eux ont fait. Faut-il chercher à rester ami-e à tout prix si les avis de nos ami-e-s nous hérissent ? Peut-on s'aimer malgré nos différences ? L'amitié peut-elle être intéressée ? RÉFÉRENCES Ouvrages : Correspondance entre Hannah Arendt et Gershom Scholem, Seuil, 2012 L'amitié, un lien social, Claire Bidart, La Découverte, 1997 Amitité, l'art de bien s'aimer, Simone Weil, Rivages Poche, 2016 3: une aspiration au dehors, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Flammarion, 2023 Sondages : Le pluralisme politique à l'épreuve de la vie privée : entre normes et pratiques - Anne Muxel, directrice de recherches CNRS en science politique au Cevipof, 2015 Toi, moi et la politique, Anne Muxel, 2008 CRÉDITS Grand Écart est un podcast produit par makesense. Il a été enregistré en juillet 2023 au studio de la Gaité Lyrique. Co-écriture : Solène Aymon et Lucie Chartouny. Montage/réalisation : Aurore Le Bihan. Identité sonore : Simon Drouard. Accompagnement éditorial : Hélène Binet. Chanson originale et interprétation : Talia Sarfati. Identité graphique : Daniel Buendia

This lecture builds on Kabbalah: The Yoga of the West, outlining the cultural, psychological, and spiritual contexts of Jewish mystical traditions. Kabbalah possesses a rich corpus embodying multiple levels of meaning and practice, codified within introductory, intermediate, and advanced knowledge. Discover these three tiers of instruction through the writings of Gershom Scholem, Manly P. Hall, Dion Fortune, Samael Aun Weor, and the Zohar.

Did Neoplatonism influence Kabbalah? Exploring the reception of Neoplatonism in Early Kabbalah via three themes: Negative Theology, Unio Mystica and Emanationism. 00:00 Three Themes from Neoplatonism to Kabbalah 00:37 Collab shout out 01:01 What is Emanationism & the Theory of the Forms? 05:12 What is Unio Mystica? 05:56 What is Negative Theology? 06:45 Disclaimers: Pitfalls of Comparison 08:09 The Jewish Neoplatonists 12:44 Mystical Union in Early Kabbalah 17:02 Philo tho… 21:19 Negative Theology in Early Kabbalah 28:29 The Tension 33:43 An Esoteric En Sof 36:51 Sefirot & Emanation in Early Kabbalah 45:36 Exogenous vs Endogenous 47:22 A Human Question 52:10 Summary 53:28 Shout out and Thank you Sources and Further Reading • Adam Afterman, “And They Shall Be One Flesh,” On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism, BRILL (2016), pp. 25-7, 79-101, 130-50 • Daniel Matt, “Ayin: The Concept of Nothingness in Mystical Judaism,” in The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy by Robert Forman (ed.), New York, 1990, pp. 121-159 • Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah (Jerusalem, 1974), p. 88 • Gershom Scholem, Origins of the Kabbalah, 1950, pp. 265-71, 431-45 • Moshe Idel, “Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” in Lenn Goodman, Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, State University of New York Press, 1992, pp. 325-27, 338-340 • Moshe Idel, Metamorphoses of a Platonic Theme in Jewish Mysticism, pp. 67-8 • Moshe Idel, Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 239–49 • Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives, 1988, pp. 31-2 • Sarah Pessin, “Jewish Neoplatonism: Being above Being and Divine Emanation in Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli” The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, edited by Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 91–110 • Raphael Jospe, "Chapter Three. Jewish Neoplatonism: Isaac Israeli and Solomon ibn Gabirol". Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, 2009, pp. 79-131 Join us: https://discord.gg/EQtjK2FWsm https://facebook.com/seekersofunity https://instagram.com/seekersofunity https://www.twitter.com/seekersofu https://www.seekersofunity.com Thank you to our beloved Patrons: jXaviErre, Eny, Kim, Michael, Kirk, Ron, Seth, Daniel, Raphael, Daniel, Jason, Sergio, Leila, Wael, jXaviErre, Simona, Francis, Etty, Stephen, Arash, William, Michael, Matija, Timony, Vilijami, Stoney, El techo, Stephen, Ross, Ahmed, Alexander, Diceman, Hannah, Julian, Leo, Sim, Sultan, John, Joshua, Igor, Chezi, Jorge, Andrew, Alexandra, Füsun, Lucas, Andrew, Stian, Ivana, Aédàn, Darjeeling, Astarte, Declan, Gregory, Alex, Charlie, Anonymous, Joshua, Arin, Sage, Marcel, Ahawk, Yehuda, Kevin, Evan, Shahin, Al Alami, Dale, Ethan, Gerr, Effy, Noam, Ron, Shtus, Mendel, Jared, Tim, Mystic Experiment, MM, Lenny, Justin, Joshua, Jorge, Wayne, Jason, Caroline, Yaakov, Daniel, Wodenborn, Steve, Collin, Justin, Mariana, Vic, Shaw, Carlos, Nico, Isaac, Frederick, David, Ben, Rodney, Charley, Jonathan, Chelsea, Curly Joe, Adam and Andre. Join them in supporting us: patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seekers paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RKCYGQSMJFDRU

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was one of the most influential figures in the field of Jewish Studies.Join us with historian David Biale, author of the Jewish Lives biography Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah, as we examine the life of the thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement.

Un cuento de hadas dialéctico En una carta fechada en 1935, Walter Benjamin le cuenta a Theodor Adorno cómo surge en su horizonte intelectual la idea de escribir una prehistoria de la modernidad a partir del estudio crítico de los pasajes parisinos. Allí le confiesa a su interlocutor que el detonador de todo el proyecto fue El campesino de París, cuya lectura, confiesa, emocionaba tanto que era incapaz de leer más de dos o tres páginas seguidas cada noche. Esta experiencia singular debía considerarse como un anuncio de los años que Benjamin permanecería fascinado por el objeto de su más compleja y arriesgada empresa: la acumulación de materiales para la escritura del Libro de los pasajes. Los primeros apuntes de lo que será este ingente trabajo inconcluso proceden de esa época. Ya entonces, al parecer, había surgido el subtítulo Un cuento de hadas dialéctico que luego abandonaría. Siete años antes, Benjamin le había escrito a Gershom Scholem una carta en la que le apuntaba lo siguiente: “Cuando haya acabado de una u otra forma el trabajo del que en este momento me ocupo con toda clase de precauciones, un ensayo sumamente curioso y arriesgado, Pasajes de París, un cuento de hadas dialéctico, pues nunca he escrito con tanto riesgo de fracasar, se habrá cerrado para mí un horizonte de trabajo, el de Calle de dirección única, en el mismo sentido en que el libro sobre el drama barroco cerró el horizonte de la germanística”. “Los motivos profanos de Calle de dirección única se multiplicarán en él de un modo infernal. Nada más puedo decir aún de este asunto, ni tengo todavía una idea precisa de su extensión”. Los fragmentos citados de ambas cartas ponen en evidencia, por una parte, el vínculo original con el surrealismo del proyecto del Libro de los pasajes y, por otra parte, señalan la relación estrecha que este mantiene con Calle de dirección única, el libro vanguardista de arriesgada estructura rapsódica que Benjamin estaba a punto de publicar y en el cual, apelando al método del montaje, proponía un nuevo género de lectura histórica y crítica de la cultura alemana, combinando, según sus propias palabras, diversos motivos profanos, entendidos estos en el más amplio y a la vez preciso sentido religioso y hermenéutico en un complejo mosaico de contrastesy reflejos. Si con este libro el filósofo, como él dice, rebasa los límites de sus estudios filológicos, tal como los llevó a cabo para escribir su libro sobre el Trauerspiels del sigloXVII, publicado en 1925, con el libro de Aragón tiene lugar en él una intensa conmoción espiritual que dará lugar a un giro crucial en su vida y su pensamiento. Este giro no hubiera tenido la fuerza transformadora que tuvo si no se hubiera añadido al desarrollo del proceso la presencia de Asja Lacis, la militante bolchevique que Benjamin había conocido en 1924 en Capri. La amistad entre ambos es el otro ingrediente fundamental que permite entender las razones del cambio radical de perspectiva que afectará al trabajo del filósofo, al influjo de la utopía surrealista y al influjo de la experiencia de una escritura rapsódica basada en la práctica del montaje, se añade el influjo de una seducción erótica impregnada por el perfume inquietante del materialismo histórico. ¿Qué podía generar en la conciencia de un alegorista melancólico como Benjamin semejante cóctel de corrientes de fuerza, sino esa obra revolucionaria, atípica y atópica que es El libro de los pasajes? Escrito y narrado por Rafael Castillo Zapata

Is the Zohar authentic? Join us as we take a deep-dive into one of the most influential and controversial works in Jewish mysticism and the book that changed Judaism forever, the Zohar. Hakham J.J. Kimche provides us with a clear definition of the Zohar, and discusses its major ideas at its core, including the Zohar's new conceptions of theology, Torah and Mitzvot, and mankind/Jews. The authorship of the Zohar is a topic of much debate, and we delve into the subject in this podcast. J.J. Kimche breaks down the historical and linguistic evidence surrounding the Zohar's authorship, and gives a thorough analysis of its various anachronisms, errors, and objectionable statements in the text, leading to a discussion on the dubious nature of the text's authorship. Who was Rabbi Moses De Leon and why was the Zohar penned in the name of Rashby (R. Shimon Bar Yochai)? We also explore the editing and printing of the Zohar, and the spread and influence of the text post-1492. Additionally, we examine the history of Zohar criticism, including the small historical signs of criticism, major medieval critics such as Rabbi Elijah Del Medigo, Rabbi Leon de Modena, and Rabbi Jacob Emden, the Maskilic period, and the modern era of Zohar criticism with scholars such as Shadal, Wissenschaft des Judentum scholars, and Gershom Scholem. We end with a difficult but important conversation about why this is even important to unpack, why traditional Sepharadim and followers of Rambam often find its influence objectionable and its contents heretical. What does it mean for Jews today, considering its widespread acceptance (with the popularity of its byproducts: Lurianic Kabbalah and Hassidut)? You likely won't find another Orthodox Jewish podcast covering such an "untouchable" topic, but we feel it's about time since we live in the age of information and see the after-effects of its lasting influence on Judaism, both good and bad. We always advocate for a return to fundamentals and a focus on the core teachings of Judaism: TaNakh, Halakha, and Talmud. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/judaismdemystified/support

The continuing story of the false messiah as recounted by Gershom Scholem. For the rest of this series and other bonus content, or to support the show, please visit https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod.

Neoplatonism and Jewish Mysticism, an introduction. Exploring the debated origins of Kabbalah. Presenting Scholem's Gnosticism and Neoplatonism origin hypothesis, Idel's rejection of it and his own more nuanced theory. Check out the rest of our wonderful collaborators: @LetsTalkReligion What is Neoplatonism: https://youtu.be/vZEUo_sHoBw @TheEsotericaChannel Neoplatonism vs Gnosticism: https://youtu.be/ZV5ubPPzT7U @drangelapuca Plotinus and Iamblichus on Theurgy and Magic: https://youtu.be/lNqnNjsGExM @TheModernHermeticist The Platonic Philosophers' Creed by Thomas Taylor: https://youtu.be/Wzd98YSG6Hs @johnvervaeke Neoplatonism & 4E Cognitive Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbk3lA6zCic 00:00 Disclaimer 00:45 Shout out 02:06 Where does Kabbalah come from? 04:44 a word from our sponsors 05:21 Kabbalah as a Historical Phenomena 07:37 What is Kabbalah? 08:28 Why then, why so? 09:57 Gershom Scholem 11:55 What is Neoplatonism? 14:20 From Scholem to Idel 15:23 Moshe Idel 18:55 Idel's Theory 22:01 Thank you and shout out Sources and Further Reading • Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah, 1974, pp. 45, 98. • Gershom Scholem, Major Trends, 1941, pp. 74-75. • Gershom Scholem, Origins of the Kabbalah, 1987, pp. 269, 363. • Moshe Idel, "On Binary 'Beginnings' in Kabbalah-Scholarship", in Aporemata. Kritische Studien zur Philologiegeschichte 5 (2001): Historicization-Historisierung, pp. 322-25 • Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives, 1988, pp. 30-2 • Moshe Idel, “Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” in Lenn Goodman, Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, State University of New York Press, 1992, pp. 318-9 • Lloyd P. Gerson, Foreword, Neoplatonism (Hackett Classics) 2nd Edition, by Lloyd P. Gerson and R. T. Wallis • Pauliina Remes and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, “Introduction: Neoplatonism today,” in The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism by Pauliina Remes and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (eds.) Join us: https://discord.gg/EQtjK2FWsm https://facebook.com/seekersofunity https://instagram.com/seekersofunity https://www.twitter.com/seekersofu https://www.seekersofunity.com Thank you to our beloved Patrons: Eny, Kim, Michael, Kirk, Ron, Seth, Daniel, Raphael, Daniel, Jason, Sergio, Leila, Wael, jXaviErre, Simona, Francis, Etty, Stephen, Arash, William, Michael, Matija, Timony, Vilijami, Stoney, El techo, Stephen, Ross, Ahmed, Alexander, Diceman, Hannah, Julian, Leo, Sim, Sultan, John, Joshua, Igor, Chezi, Jorge, Andrew, Alexandra, Füsun, Lucas, Andrew, Stian, Ivana, Aédàn, Darjeeling, Astarte, Declan, Gregory, Alex, Charlie, Anonymous, Joshua, Arin, Sage, Marcel, Ahawk, Yehuda, Kevin, Evan, Shahin, Al Alami, Dale, Ethan, Gerr, Effy, Noam, Ron, Shtus, Mendel, Jared, Tim, Mystic Experiment, MM, Lenny, Justin, Joshua, Jorge, Wayne, Jason, Caroline, Yaakov, Daniel, Wodenborn, Steve, Collin, Justin, Mariana, Vic, Shaw, Carlos, Nico, Isaac, Frederick, David, Ben, Rodney, Charley, Jonathan, Chelsea, Curly Joe, Adam and Andre. Join them in supporting us: patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seekers paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RKCYGQSMJFDRU

Carlo Altini"La storia della filosofia come filosofia politica""La filosofia politica di Hobbes"Edizioni ETShttps://edizioniets.com"La storia della filosofia come filosofia politica"Carl Schmitt e Leo Strauss lettori di Thomas HobbesNella Germania di Weimar l'interpretazione di Hobbes diventa l'occasione per una valutazione storica, politica e filosofica della vicenda dello Stato moderno, nell'epoca della sua crisi. Molti sono gli autori – da Tönnies a Dilthey, da Meinecke a Cassirer e Horkheimer – che si confrontano con la lezione del filosofo inglese, con lo scopo esplicito di comprendere la genesi, lo sviluppo e il destino della modernità filosofico-politica e del capitalismo all'interno di una più complessiva discussione critica dei processi di razionalizzazione nel mondo moderno. Tra le interpretazioni di Hobbes svolgono tuttavia un ruolo decisivo quelle offerte da Carl Schmitt e Leo Strauss negli anni Trenta, in piena temperie nazista, quando diventa discriminante, per l'interpretazione della politica moderna, la riflessione sulle categorie di individualismo, massificazione e totalitarismo."La filosofia politica di Hobbes"Il suo fondamento e la sua genesiQuesto volume presenta una nuova traduzione italiana di uno dei testi più celebri del filosofo tedesco Leo Strauss, che aprì una nuova strada agli studi su Hobbes. Pubblicato a Oxford nel 1936, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes è una compiuta analisi storico-filosofica sulla formazione del pensiero politico hobbesiano, e della sua cesura radicale con il pensiero premoderno, che prende le mosse da almeno due domande.Qual è il fondamento della filosofia politica di Hobbes? Si trova nella nuova scienza fisica di Galilei oppure in una preferenza morale di tipo individualistico?Da qui si snoda l'analisi complessa – che tiene insieme storia della filosofia, filologia e filosofia politica – sviluppata da Strauss intorno al pensiero di Hobbes, considerato il fondatore della modernità. L'esito di questa indagine, realizzata negli anni Trenta tra Parigi e Cambridge, in esilio dalla Germania nazista, costituisce un punto di riferimento per la letteratura hobbesiana, che ancora oggi considera l'opera di Strauss come un testo ineludibile per affrontare l'autore del Leviathan. Ma i motivi e i risultati di questa ricerca sono centrali soprattutto per comprendere alcune traiettorie della filosofia politica moderna che, nell'interpretazione straussiana, abbandona i modelli classici fondati sul bene e sulla virtù per creare un nuovo “continente morale” fondato sui diritti individuali, la cui deriva sarà visibile nel nichilismo e nel relativismo della contemporaneità.Leo Strauss (1899-1973) è stato uno dei maggiori filosofi politici del Novecento. Autore di opere su Platone e Senofonte, Maimonide e Machiavelli, Hobbes e Spinoza, nelle sue ricerche ha costruito un originale intreccio tra storia della filosofia e filosofia politica centrato sulla critica della modernità, alla luce di alcune questioni chiave per il pensiero filosofico: la riscoperta della scrittura reticente, il confronto con la filosofia greca classica e l'analisi del rapporto tra Atene e Gerusalemme.Carlo Altini è professore di Storia della filosofia nell'Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, direttore scientifico della Fondazione San Carlo di Modena e membro di direzione della rivista «Filosofia politica». Nelle sue ricerche ha indagato la nascita, lo sviluppo e la crisi della modernità filosofica e politica attraverso l'analisi storica e teorica di concetti quali progresso, potenza, utopia, sovranità, democrazia e autori quali Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, Gershom Scholem, Karl Löwith. Tra le sue pubblicazioni recenti: Issues of Interpretation (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018); Una filosofia in esilio. Vita e pensiero di Leo Strauss (Carocci, 2021); Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom. A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography (State University of New York Press, 2022).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

Martin Buber is a name that will forever be associated with mysticism and philosophy. His book, I and Thou, continues to touch the lives of thousands. There is perhaps no person who has done more to preserve and present his work than world-renown Buber scholar, Paul Mendes-Flohr. In this conversation we explore Buber's transition from Mysticism to Dialogue. Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr is a leading scholar of modern Jewish thought. He has written some thirty books, edited another forty-five, and authored some 300 articles on modern Jewish intellectual history, philosophy and religious thought, with a focus on the lives and ideas of the leading German-Jewish intellectuals of the 19th and 20th-centuries: Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem and Leo Strauss. Paul is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought at the University of Chicago, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, was the director of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center and is the editor in chief of the twenty-two volume German edition of the collected works of Martin Buber, as well as a series on German-Jewish literature and Cultural History. Some of his recent works include: Gustav Landauer. Anarchist and Jew (2014). Dialogue as a Trans-Disciplinary Concept (2015). Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent (2019). Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities (2021). 00:00 Excerpt 00:54 Introducing Paul Mendes-Flohr 02:41 Why Mysticism? 3:39 Buber and Mysticism 6:25 Ecstatic Confessions 07:28 Story time 08:27 Escapist Mysticism & Hasidism 10:25 Buber, Do you believe in God? 11:19 Buber philosophy of Dialogue 15:14 The Eternal Thou 17:13 Shalom 19:29 Judaism isn't a political identity 22:11 How did you come to Buber? 26:43 Translating I and Thou 29:22 Buber vs Gnosticism 34:18 Hearing vs Listening 36:33 I _&_ Thou 38:01 Where is Buber today? 39:29 The Academy 41:12 Buber and Palestine 44:28 From Mysticism to Dialogue 50:24 The Reluctant Prophet 56:47 A Positive formulation of Judaism 1:03:47 To be a Child Join us: https://facebook.com/seekersofunity https://instagram.com/seekersofunity https://www.twitter.com/seekersofu https://www.seekersofunity.com Support us: patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seekers paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RKCYGQSMJFDRU

Histoire d'une amitié. En librairie le 7 octobre 2022 et sur https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251453453/walter-benjamin. Au moment où l'œuvre de Walter Benjamin est l'objet d'une attention croissante, cet essai de Gershom Scholem est une contribution essentielle à sa compréhension.

George Prochnik rejoins the show to celebrate his new book, I Dream With Open Eyes: A Memoir About Reimagining Home (Counterpoint Press). We get into his family's decision after the 2016 election to leave America, how his book complements his wife Rebecca Mead's memoir about their move to the UK, the performative & symbolic aspects of their decision, the work of culture, and how it felt to write about the present moment for the first time. We talk about American exceptionalism, the nature of exile & self-exile, the centrality of Freud to different branches of his family, and why he decided to write about the nature of working as a writer and trying to get by as an artist in NYC. We also discuss the apocalyptic nature of our era, how the power of ignorance is stronger than power of knowledge, how we can recuperate the unknown as a space of possibility, and the warnings of two of his past literary subjects, Stefan Zweig and Gershom Scholem. Follow George on Twitter and Instagram, although he doesn't actually post at either very much • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

We range over the many places and people of an erotic and intellectual life spanning Europe, the U.S., and Israel with Susan Sontag, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Marcuse, and many more radical thinkers.

In 1666 the world was full of apocalyptic expectations. Onto this stage stepped Sabbatai Zevi, who proclaimed himself messiah. It was a new era, in which the Law was annihilated. Gershom Scholem's classic essay reevaluated the legacy of the false prophet of the 17th century. This is part 1 of 8. For the rest of this series, go to https://www.patreon.com/symbolpod and become a patron of the podcast.

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Invité de marque, David Haziza l'est à plus d'un titre. Déjà, parce qu'il aura fait tout le chemin de New York à Paris pour venir se soumettre aux questions de Ferghane Azihari et Peggy Sastre et, ensuite, parce que malgré son relatif jeune âge, on lui constate déjà un beau passif. Élève de l'École normale supérieure, où il a étudié la philosophie, David Haziza a ensuite choisi de poursuivre ses études aux États-Unis, à l'Université de Columbia, pour un doctorat au département de français, où il a également enseigné.Ses recherches, à la croisée de la littérature, de l'histoire des idées et des études religieuses, ont notamment été consacrées à Michelet, en particulier à sa Sorcière, et à l'historien de la mystique et des hérésies juives Gershom Scholem, dont les approches de l'histoire ont été mises en dialogue avec d'autres auteurs et chercheurs, comme Georges Bataille, Carlo Ginzburg ou encore Bakhtine. Soit de quoi commencer à se faire une idée du caractère pour le moins buissonnant de l'œuvre de David Haziza. En 2017, il publie un premier livre aux éditions du Cerf, Talisman sur ton cœur, qui proposait une nouvelle traduction et un commentaire du Cantique des Cantiques. Et pour ce nouvel épisode des Contrariantes, c'est son deuxième ouvrage, paru en janvier chez Grasset, Le procès de la chair – Essai contre les nouveaux puritains qui en aura fait un invité immanquable.Pandémie, féminisme, tueries de masse, parentalité « bienveillante » et autres costards taillés au « sécuritarisme » de droite ayant alimenté les paniques morales et la peur du sexe de la gauche woke… Tout y passe et encore plus. Une parole libre dans un entretien aussi frais que foisonnant. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. Jerry Muller traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, and how his journey led him from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. Jerry Muller traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, and how his journey led him from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. Jerry Muller traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, and how his journey led him from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. Jerry Muller traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, and how his journey led him from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. Jerry Muller traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, and how his journey led him from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il

Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. Jerry Muller traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, and how his journey led him from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. Jerry Muller traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, and how his journey led him from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/van-leer-institute

Genius or Charlatan? This is the story of Jacob Taubes, the controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Taubes's personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. Jerry Muller traces Taubes's emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, and how his journey led him from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network's Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Exploring the relationship between Maimonides and the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah. A history of rejection, acceptance, influence, secret conversions and archenemies. Join us in our attempt to get to the bottom of this love-hate relationship in this third part of our series on Maimonides and Mysticism. Sources and Further Reading: - Alexander Altmann, “Maimonides' Attitude Toward Jewish Mysticism,” in Studies in Jewish Thought, ed. Alfred Jospe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981), pp. 200–219 - Daniel Silver, Maimonidean Criticism and the Maimonidean Controversy 1180-1240 (London, 1965), 183. - Elliot Wolfson, Abraham Abulafia, Kabbalist and Prophet; Hermeneutics, Theosophy and Theurgy, Cherub Press, Los Angeles, 2000, Introduction. - Elliot Wolfson, “Beneath the Wings of the Great Eagle: Maimonides and Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah,” in Moses Maimonide, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2004, pp. 209–237 - Felicia Waldman, ‘Some Considerations on Maimonnides' influence on Mysticism', Studia Judaica no.17 (2009). - Gershom Scholem, ‘Mehoker limekkubal, Sefer Harambam',Tarbiz, 6: 3 (1935), pp. 90-8 (Hebrew). - Harvey, Warren Z. “Aspects of Jewish Philosophy in Medieval Catalonia.” In The Life and Times of Mosse ben Nahman, Girona: Ajuntament de Girona, 1994, pp. 141– 157 - Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “Philosophy and Kabbalah, 1200–1600.” in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 218–257; - Joseph Citron, Maimonides and Mysticism (unpublished) - Jonathan Dauber, “Competing Approaches to Maimonides in Early Kabbalah,” in The Cultures of Maimonideanism, ed. James T. Robinson (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009), pp. 57–88. - Louis Jacobs, Attitudes of the Kabbalists and Hasidim towards Maimonides, in The Solomon Goldman Lectures, vol. 5, Judaica Press, 1990, pp. 45-55 - Moshe Idel, “Maimonides and Kabbalah,” in Studies In Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (ed.), Harvard University Press, 1990. - Moshe Idel, “Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed and the Kabbalah” in Jewish History 18: 197-226, 2004. Join us: https://facebook.com/seekersofunity https://instagram.com/seekersofunity https://www.twitter.com/seekersofU https://www.seekersofunity.com Thank you to our beloved Patrons: Alexandra, Füsun, Lucas, Andrew, Stian, Ivana, Aédàn, Darjeeling, Astarte, Declan, Gregory, Alex, Charlie, Anonymous, Joshua, Arin, Sage, Marcel, Ahawk, Yehuda, Kevin, Evan, Shahin, Al Alami, Dale, Ethan, Gerr, Effy, Noam, Ron, Shtus, Mendel, Jared, Tim, Mystic Experiment, MM, Lenny, Justin, Joshua, Jorge, Wayne, Jason, Caroline, Yaakov, Daniel, Wodenborn, Steve, Collin, Justin, Mariana, Vic, Shaw, Carlos, Nico, Isaac, Frederick, David, Ben, Rodney, Charley, Jonathan, Chelsea, Curly Joe, Adam and Andre. Join them in supporting us: patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seekers paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RKCYGQSMJFDRU

"Le Talmud est fondé sur la seule forme légitime de la question : la question médiale, celle qui, par sa teneur, est posée en permanence", disait Gershom Scholem. Ce premier épisode du podcast enquête sur les questions dans la littérature rabbinique : leur centralité, leurs fonctions diverses, politiques, intellectuelles, rhétoriques, religieuses ou mystiques. Ici, est affrontée LA question qui scande la soirée du Seder de Pessah : Ma Nishtana - "En quoi cette nuit est-elle différente des autres nuits ?" Au micro, Bitya Rozen-Goldberg et Noémie Benchimol.

As part of a 3-part series featuring participants in the inaugural Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers' Programme, George Prochnik, author of New York Times "Editor's Choice” and Wingate Prize short-listed Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem and Guy Stagg, author of Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019 The Crossway, explore biographical writing and how one can use it not only as a lens into the subject or period, but also into oneself. They particularly focus on Guy's second book in development, Triptych, which is a group biography, focusing on Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, French philosopher Simone Weil and Welsh poet and painter David Jones.

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“I've always considered myself a believing historian and, in fact, most historians of religion are actually believing historians. Very frequently they emerge from the congregations that they're writing about, whether new religious movements or traditional religions, this is true of Kabbalistic scholar Gershom Scholem, it's true of people who have written probably the most important biographies of more recent religious figures like Mary Baker Eddy or Joseph Smith, a Mormon prophet. Although, historians don't frequently acknowledge being believing historians because they feel that it might seem to compromise their capacity for critical judgement, but my impression is different. My impression is that being in very direct proximity to the nature of the philosophical, religious, ethical, therapeutic movements that you're writing about can heighten your critical acumen.”Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today's most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition. Mitch is a Writer & Lecturer in Residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books, including Occult America, One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life, and The Miracle Habits. · www.mitchhorowitz.com · www.creativeprocess.info

“I've always considered myself a believing historian and, in fact, most historians of religion are actually believing historians. Very frequently they emerge from the congregations that they're writing about, whether new religious movements or traditional religions, this is true of Kabbalistic scholar Gershom Scholem, it's true of people who have written probably the most important biographies of more recent religious figures like Mary Baker Eddy or Joseph Smith, a Mormon prophet. Although, historians don't frequently acknowledge being believing historians because they feel that it might seem to compromise their capacity for critical judgement, but my impression is different. My impression is that being in very direct proximity to the nature of the philosophical, religious, ethical, therapeutic movements that you're writing about can heighten your critical acumen.”Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today's most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition. Mitch is a Writer & Lecturer in Residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books, including Occult America, One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life, and The Miracle Habits. · www.mitchhorowitz.com · www.creativeprocess.info

“I've always considered myself a believing historian and, in fact, most historians of religion are actually believing historians. Very frequently they emerge from the congregations that they're writing about, whether new religious movements or traditional religions, this is true of Kabbalistic scholar Gershom Scholem, it's true of people who have written probably the most important biographies of more recent religious figures like Mary Baker Eddy or Joseph Smith, a Mormon prophet. Although, historians don't frequently acknowledge being believing historians because they feel that it might seem to compromise their capacity for critical judgement, but my impression is different. My impression is that being in very direct proximity to the nature of the philosophical, religious, ethical, therapeutic movements that you're writing about can heighten your critical acumen.”Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today's most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition. Mitch is a Writer & Lecturer in Residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books, including Occult America, One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life, and The Miracle Habits. · www.mitchhorowitz.com · www.creativeprocess.info

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In this episode, we examine the rivalry/friendship between Eisler and the great scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and reassess Eisler's infamous meeting with Scholem and Walter Benjamin in Paris in 1926. We try to unravel the mystery of why Eisler was disavowed by his government after he was appointed to The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. Finally, we take a look at the ambivalent reception of Eisler's 1922 Orpheus lecture in Hamburg (he gets a spontaneous ovation but his attempted art theft comes back to haunt him) and his strained relationships with the pioneering German intellectual historians Aby Warburg and Fritz Saxl. One question remains: how did Eisler's frock coat get stolen? Voice of Robert Eisler: Caleb Crawford Additional voices: Brian Evans and Chiara Ridpath Guests: Amir Engel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Steven Wasserstrom (Reed College), and Claudia Wedepohl (The Warburg Institute). Funding provided by the Ohio University Humanities Research Fund and the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College Internship Program. Special thanks to the Warburg Institute and the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford. Bibliography and Further Reading -Eisler, Robert. Orpheus the Fisher: Comparative Studies in Orphic and Early Christian Cult Symbolism. London: J. M. Watkins, 1921. -Eliade, Mircea. Journal I, 1945-1955. Trans. by Mac Linscott Ricketts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. -Engel, Amir. Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. -Gombrich, Ernst. Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography.  Leiden: Brill, 1970. -Gopnik, Adam. “In the Memory Ward.” The New Yorker, March 16, 2015. -Levine, Emily J. Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. -Scholem, Gershom. Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship. New York: New York Review of Books, 2003. -Scholem, Gershom, ed. The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem. New York: Schocken Books, 1989. -Scholem, Gershom. From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth. New York: Schocken Books, 1980. Follow us on Twitter: @averysquarepeg Associate Professor Brian Collins is the Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy at Ohio University. He can be reached at collinb1@ohio.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices