Safranim yekarim, I am happy to announce the publication in Hol Hamoed of this new book: Noam Zadoff (editor), Gershom Scholem and Joseph Weiss, A Correspondence 1948-1964, Jerusalem: Carmel, 2012
The correspondence between the Hassidism scholar Joseph Weiss (1918-1969) and his teacher Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) touches upon many different subjects. It describes different aspects of the academic life in Israel, England and the USA, and it tells an important chapter in the historiography of the Hassidic movement, in which Weiss played a central role. This book describes the friendship between a teacher and its student and it reveals the complex relationship between them throughout three decades. In a memorial lecture to Weiss held in 1970, one year after his death, Scholem said: "I considered him in many ways the closest of my pupils, and the dialogue between us, a dialogue in the true sense of a term so much abused nowadays, went on for nearly thirty years". The letters brought in this volume are this dialogue and they reflect a relationship based on friendship and mutual respect between two of the most prominent Jewish intellectuals on the 20th century. Moadim lesimcha, Efraim Dr. Efraim Zadoff Investigador Asociado Centro Liwerant para el Estudio de América Latina, España y Portugal y sus Comunidades Judías Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalem P.O.Box 23526 Jerusalem 91234 tel. 972 2 5865596 cel. 972 50 7393887 fax. 972 2 5860829
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