Stranger in a Strange Land—Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York CityIn Stranger in a Strange Land, George Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once prominent reputation, as a Freud-like interpreter of the inner world of the cosmos, has faded in the United States. He vividly recreates Scholem’s upbringing in Berlin and brings to life Scholem’s transformative friendship with Walter Benjamin, the critic and philosopher. In doing so,…