Gershom Scholem family history & nostalgia and the propagation of elaborate

and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy and curtail their civil rights

Packed with photographs

simple saints and savvy sinners

Winner of the Edward Stanford Children’s Travel Book of the Year 2023

Gershom Scholem family history & nostalgia and the propagation of elaborateFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new biography of the seminal twentieth century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement "Biale . . . not only captures Scholems scholarship, but also his personal involvement in the major issues, conflicts, tragedies, and triumphs of Jewish life during the last century. . . . [An] excellent new book."Reform Judaism Gershom Scholem