Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Gershom Scholem across 3 places, from 1915 to 1940.
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Gershom Scholem (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was an Israeli philosopher and historian.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Gershom Scholem was documented, and when
1915year
Berlinattested“In 1915, Scholem enrolled at the Frederick William University in Berlin (today, Humboldt University), where he studied mathematics, philosophy, and Hebrew.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1915year
Humboldt University of Berlinattested“In 1915, Scholem enrolled at the Frederick William University in Berlin (today, Humboldt University), where he studied mathematics, philosophy, and Hebrew.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1922year
Berlinattested“Scholem told the story of his early research "at the start of my path" in 1922 when he went to Berlin to visit "the only Jewish scholar who had engaged in the study of Kabbalah in the previous generation." Gesturing at the rabbi's librar…”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1940year
Gestapoattested“It is a measure of the depth of Scholem's friendship with Benjamin that he wrote two memoirs at the end of his life: his own autobiography tends to be less read or frequently cited than his "Autobiography of a Friendship" recounting his…”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
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1915year
Munichmentioned“Scholem met Walter Benjamin in Munich in 1915, when the former was seventeen years old and the latter was twenty-three.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1916year
Palestinementioned“After generations of demoralization and assimilation in the European Enlightenment, the disappointment of messianic hopes, the famine of 1916 in Palestine, and in the midst of the catastrophe of the Final Solution in Europe Scholem gathe…”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1918year
Bernmentioned“He was in Bern in 1918 with Benjamin when he met Elsa (Escha) Burchhard, who became his first wife.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1919year
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Münchenmentioned“Scholem returned to Germany in 1919, where he received a degree in Semitic languages at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1919year
Germanymentioned“Scholem returned to Germany in 1919, where he received a degree in Semitic languages at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1923year
Mandatory Palestinementioned“Drawn to Zionism and influenced by Buber, he immigrated in 1923 to the British Mandate of Palestine.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1941 to 1965period
Jerusalemmentioned“Chaim Potok's The Book of Lights features a lightly disguised Scholem as "Jacob Keter." * Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 1941 * Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and the Talmudic Tradition, 1960 * Arendt and Scholem, "Eichmann in…”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1971 to 1987period
Berlinmentioned“1971 * Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1973 * Kabbalah, Meridian 1974, Plume Books 1987 reissue: * On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays, 1976 * From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth, 1977; trans.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
1971 to 1987period
Jerusalemmentioned“1971 * Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1973 * Kabbalah, Meridian 1974, Plume Books 1987 reissue: * On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays, 1976 * From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth, 1977; trans.”source: Wikipedia: Gershom Scholem
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