- Published: 15 March 2018
- ISBN: 9780914671978
- Imprint: Archipelago
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 150
- RRP: $32.99
Greetings From Angelus
Poems by Gershom Scholem
- Published: 15 March 2018
- ISBN: 9780914671978
- Imprint: Archipelago
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 150
- RRP: $32.99
"Gershom Scholem's scholarship was of [the] rare, life-giving kind. Not only have his studies of the Kabbalah altered . . . the image of Judaism--but his explorations, translations, and presentations of Kabbalistic writings exercise a formidable influence on literary theory at large, on the ways in which non-Jewish and wholly agnostic critics and scholars read poetry." -- George Steiner, New Yorker "Gershom Scholem's achievement has already put a generation of readers in his debt. He has intrepidly, singlehandedly, almost monomaniacally pursued the task of saving the literature of Jewish mysticism . . . restoring it to an estate of respect, honor, and importance." -- Arthur A. Cohen, New York Times Book Review "Abrupt, magisterial, quizzical, sometimes acidulous, and at moments poignantly wistful.... Scholem's verses return to an authentic Hasidic tradition of indicting God." -- Harold Bloom "An excellent bilingual selection. Richard Sieburth's versions are lucid, sensitive, forceful, and always attentive to the originals. Steven Wasserstrom's incisive commentary provides the ideal context.... Given the complexities that it resolves-historical, biographical, theological, literary-this edition is a model of its kind." -- Jeremy Adler, The Times Literary Supplement