Gershom Scholem
(1897-1982)
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Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם) (December 5, 1897 – February 21, 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah. He was the first professor of Jewish Mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His close friends included Walter Benjamin and Leo Strauss, and selected letters from his correspondence with those philosophers have been published.
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5 December 1897 Berlin, Germany
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21 February 1982 (aged 84) Jerusalem, Israel
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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