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Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli philosopher and historian (d. 1982)

Gershom Scholem was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

5 December 1897

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