Although Gershom Scholem is most well-known as a Jewish cultural figure and the definitive scholar of Jewish mysticism and Kabbala, he was also the first head librarian of the nascent National ...

Gershom Scholem helped plant the seed for my contrarian yearning—the wish for a Godless god, and for an outlaw’s Law, and a revelation that could be stolen from the gilt vaults of orthodoxy ...