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Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
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by George Prochnik

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Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem--the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah--Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel.

In Stranger in a Strange Land, 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 been in eclipse in the United States. He vividly conjures Scholem's upbringing in Berlin, and compellingly brings to life Scholem's transformative friendship with Walter Benjamin, the critic and philosopher. In doing so, he reveals how Scholem's frustration with the bourgeois ideology of Germany during the First World War led him to discover Judaism, Kabbalah, and finally Zionism, as potent counter-forces to Europe's suicidal nationalism.

Prochnik's own years in the Holy Land in the 1990s brings him to question the stereotypical intellectual and theological constructs of Jerusalem, and to rediscover the city as a physical place, rife with the unruliness and fecundity of nature. Prochnik ultimately suggests that a new form of ecological pluralism must now inherit the historically energizing role once played by Kabbalah and Zionism in Jewish thought.

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  • Title Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
  • Author George Prochnik
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Other Press (NY)
  • Publication date 2017-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781590517765 / 1590517768
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.8 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 4.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Jewish scholars - Germany, Jewish scholars - Israel
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016034545
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Choice, 10/01/2017, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2017, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/23/2017, Page 0

About the author

George Prochnik's most recent book, The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, received the National Jewish Book Award for Biography/Memoir in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the UK. Prochnik is also the author of In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise (2010), and Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology (2006). He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bookforum and the LA Review of Books, and is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine.

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