Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Naharaim
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,2 (2020) 297-
Keywords:
Scholem, Gershom,
;
Gordin, Jacob,
;
Cohen de Herrera, Abraham,
;
Cabala Philosophy
Abstract:
This article introduces and discusses a short correspondence that tookplace in November 1931 between Gershom Scholem and Jacob Gordin. Gordin wasa Russian-Jewish philosopher of religion, an expert on Hermann Cohen, and afounding figure of the postwar Paris School of Jewish Thought. The initial moti-vation for the correspondence was Scholem’s wish to produce a critical edition ofthe 17th century kabbalistic work,Shaar Hashamayimby Abraham Cohen Herrera,for which he asked for Gordin’s help. A close reading of Gordin’s response toScholem and Scholem’s belated response to Gordin highlight the respective viewsof these thinkers regarding the relationship between kabbalah and Western phi-losophy in the modern era, and in German idealism in particular. The article isfollowed by a translation of the correspondence.
DOI:
10.1515/naha-2020-0005
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