Stranger in a Strange Land. Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

Gershom Scholem, the great humanist thinker and founder of modern Kabbalah, is all but forgotten today. But here, in a biography as daring and inquisitive as its subject, George Prochnik goes in search of Scholem, restoring the reputation of a vital intellectual and finding in his work a vision with the power to reinvigorate contemporary religious and political thought.Tracing Scholem's life from his upbringing in Berlin, where he experienced a close and transformative friendship with Walter Ben