Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805210423 ISBN 13: 9780805210422

Verlag: Schocken, 1995

A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today.

From the Back Cover:

Gershom Scholem who is the author of Jewish Mysticism was a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his death in 1982. The purpose of these lectures. What is mysticism? The paradoxical nature of mystical experience. Mysticism is an historical phenomenon.

About the Author:

GERSHOM SCHOLEM was professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his death in 1982. He is also the author of The Messianic Idea in Judaism, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism,  On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead and Zohar.