List of Famous people with last name Scholem

Werner Scholem

First Name Werner

Last Name Scholem

Born on December 29, 1895

Died on July 17, 1940 (aged 44)

Born in Germany

Werner Scholem was a member of the German Reichstag in 1924–1928 and a leading member of the Communist Party of Germany. Werner Scholem and his wife Emmy were portrayed in the 2014 documentary "Between Utopia and Counter Revolution".

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Gershom Scholem

First Name Gershom

Born on December 5, 1897

Died on February 21, 1982 (aged 84)

Born in Germany

Gershom Scholem, was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah. He was the first professor of Jewish Mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His close friends included Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin and Leo Strauss, and selected letters from his correspondence with those philosophers have been published. He was also friendly with the author Shai Agnon and the Talmudic scholar Saul Lieberman.

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