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Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982)

philosopher, librarian, historian, pedagogue, bibliographer, bibliophile, poet, theologian, Judaic scholar

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Humboldt University of Berlin

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From Berlin to Jerusalem
Walter Benjamin : the story of a friendship
A life in letters, 1914-1982
Gershom Scholem
Sabbatai Ṣevi
Od davar
Walter Benjamin und sein Engel
Du frankisme au jacobinisme
Devarim be-go
Gershom Shalom
Ḥalomotaṿ shel ha-Shabtaʼi R. Mordekhai Ashkenazi
Poetica
Mi-Berlin li-Yerushalayim
שבתי צבי והתנועה השבתאית בימי חייו
Devarim be-go
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala
Zur Kabbala und ihrer Symbolik
On Jews and Judaism in crisis
The Messianic idea in Judaism and other essays on Jewish spirituality
Von der mystischen Gestalt der Gottheit
„…und alles ist Kabbala“
Judaica 1
Es gibt ein Geheimnis in der Welt
Lamentations of Youth
Greetings from Angelus
Shabtai Tsevi
Aux origines religieuses du judaïsme laïque
Devils, Demons and Souls
Über einige Grundbergriffe des Judentums
The Fullness of Time
ha- Ḳabalah shel Sefer ha-Temunah ṿe-shel Avraham Abulʻafyah
Judaica 2
Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
On the possibility of Jewish mysticism in our time & other essays
Ra'yon ha-ge'ulah ba-Kabalah
"Der liebe Gott wohnt im Detail" Briefwechsel 1939-1969 : Briefe und Briefwechsel. Band 8
Reshit ha-ḳabalah (1150-1250)
Kabballah
Retsifut u-mered
Judaica 4
Zohar: The Book of Splendor
Mẹḥḳarim u-meḳorot le-toldot ha-Shabtaʻut ṿe-gilguleha
Alchemie und Kabbala
ha- Ḳabalah bi-Provans
Meḥḳere Ḳabalah
On the Kabbalah and itssymbolism
Das Buch Bahir
Le Nom et les symboles de Dieu dans la mystique juive
Reshit ha-ḳabalah ṿe-sefer ha-Bahir
Mehkere Shabtaut (Kitve Gershom Shalom)
Lenguajes y Cabala / Languages and Kabbalah (Biblioteca De Ensayo / Essay Library)
Avraham Kohen Hirirah, baʻal Shaʻar ha-shamayim
Shedim, ruḥot, u-neshamot
De la création du monde jusqu'à Varsovie
Fidélité et utopie
Kriminologie im Strafprozess: Zur Bedeutung psychologischer, soziologischer und kriminologischer Erkenntnisse für die Strafrechtspraxis (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft) (German Edition)
Walter Benjamin the Story of a Friend
Das Davidschild
Catalogus Codicum Cabbalisticorum Hebraicorum
Frants Rozentsṿaig ṿe-sifro Kokhav ha-geʾulah
Judaica V
Shabtai Tsevi ṿe-Natan ha-ʻAzati
Briefe, 3 Bde., Bd.3, 1971-1982
Ḳabalat ha-Ari
Ha- Ḳabalah be-Geronah
El Misticismo Extraviado
Leḳeṭ margaliyot
Hay Un Misterio En El Mundo
[Ḳovets tadpisim shel maʾamaraṿ ba-Ḳabalah she-nidpesu be-khitve-ʻet shonim.]
Einige kabbalistische Handschriften im Britischen Museum
Ḥalomotaṿ shel ha-shabtaʾi Rabi Mordekhai Ashkenazi
Judaica
Mafteḥot le-khitve ha-pulmus ʻEmden-Aibshits
ha- Mistorin ha-Yehudi ṿeha-ḳabalah
Correspondence
Walter Benjamin et son ange
Pirḳe-yesod ba-havanat ha-ḳabalah u-semaleha
Conceptos Basicos del Judaismo, Los
Correspondence, 1939 - 1969
ha- Meḳubal Rabi Avraham ben Eliʻezer Haleṿi
Bibliographia Kabbalistica
Osnovnye techenii︠a︡ v evreĭskoĭ mistike
Las Grandes Tendencias de La Mistica Judia
Los Origenes De LA Cabala
ha- Mistorin (ha-misṭiḳah) bikhlal
Jewish gnosticism, Markavah mysticism and Talmudic tradition
Todo Es Cabala
Tagebücher
Magen-Daṿid
Briefe an Werner Kraft (German Edition)
Studies in mysticism and religion
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940
Judaica 6
Briefe (German Edition)
Judaica III
Sur Jonas, la lamentation et le judaïsme
ha-Raʻyon ha-meshiḥi be-Yiśraʾel
Judaica
La cábala y su simbolismo
MESIANISMO Y NIHILISMO
ha-Shelav ha-aḥaron
Scholem/shalom
Ḳabalot Rabi Yaʻaḳov ṿe-Rabi Yitsḥaḳ bene Rabi Yaʻaḳov Hakhohen
Ḳunṭres eleh shemot
Mi-ḥoḳer li-meḳubal
Shirot ṿe-tishbaḥot shel ha-Shabetaʾim
ha-Ḳabalah be-Geronah
De Berlin a Jerusalem
On the Kabbalah and its symbolism
Concetti fondamentali dell'ebraismo
Kabbalistes chrétiens
מגן־דוד: תולדותיו של סמל
Parashat ha-Shabtaʾut
Toldot ha-tenuʻah ha-Shabtaʼit
Walter Benjamin. Historia de una amistad
Messianic movements after the expulsion from Spain
ha-Meḳubal Rabi Avraham ben Eliʻezer Haleṿi
Kabała i jej symbolika
Shir shel Yiśraʾel Najarah be-fi ha-Shabtaʾim
Masoret ha-berit
Yiśraʾel Sarug-talmid ha-Ari?
[Biḳoret ʻal Ḳaṭalog ḳitve ha-yad shel Ambrozyana be-Milano me-et Ḳarolo Bernhaymer]
Le-ḥeḳer ḳabalat rabi Yitsḥaḳ ha-Kohen
Żydzi i Niemcy
ha-Ḳabalah shel sefer ha-Temunah ṿe-shel Avraham Abulʻafia
Walter Benjamin - Gershom Scholem Mektuplasmalar 1932-1940
Le-aḥar gerush Sefarad
Meḥabro shel ha-maʾamar ha-mezuyaf bi-leshon sefer ha-Zohar
Report of Prof. G. Scholom in his mission to Europe
Ḥalomotaṿ shel ha-Shabtaʼi Rabi Mordekhai Ashḳenazi
From Frankism to Jacobinism
Kitve Gershom Shalom
Pirḳe-yesod ba-havanat ha-Ḳabalah u-semaleha
Peraḳim le-toldot sifrut ha-ḳabalah
Dr. Yoḥanan Leṿi
קונטרס עלו לשלום
L'idea messianica nell'ebraismo e altri saggi sulla spiritualità ebraica
Shabtai Tsevi ṿeha-tenuʻah ha-Shabtaʼit bi-yeme ḥayaṿ
On Eduard Morike's Nolten the painter & On Rainer Maria Rilke's The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Mistycyzm żydowski i jego główne kierunki
Śeride sifro shel Rabi Shem Ṭov Ibn Gaʼon ʻal yesodot torat ha-sefirot
Mi-tokh hirhurim ʻal ḥokhmat Yiśraʾel
Los nombres secretos de Walter Benjamin
Shabtai Tsevi ṿeha-tenuʻah ha-Shabtaʾit bi-yeme ḥayaṿ
ha-Ḳabalah bi-Provans
The Messianic idea in Judaism
"... und alles ist Kabbala"
גרשם שלום (תרנ״חי־תשמ״ב)
Sabbatai Sevi ́
Pirḳe yesod be-havanat ha-ḳabalah u-semaleha
Die Geheimnisse der Schöpfung
Tagebücher
Jewish mysticism in the Middle Ages
La kabbale
Das Herz der Kabbala. Jüdische Mystik aus zwei Jahrtausenden.
Philip Rees
Philip Rees (born 1941)

librarian

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Biographical dictionary of the extreme right since 1890
Fascism and pre-fascism in Europe, 1890-1945
Fascism in Britain
Methods for estimating missing data on migrants in the 1991 census
Counting people
Hermann Stresau
Hermann Stresau (1894-1964)

literary scholar, librarian

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George Bernard Shaw in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Thornton Wilder
Heinrich Böll
Thomas Mann und sein Werk
Ernest Hemingway
rororo Monographien, Nr.59, George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Mann und sein Werk
Deutsche tragiker: Hölderlin, Kleist, Grabbe, Hebbel
Joseph Conrad
Heinrich Bo ll
Joseph Conrad
Von Jahr zu Jahr
Joseph Conrad, der Tragiker des Westens
Heinrich Böll
Das Paradies ist verriegelt
Thomas Mann und sein Werk
Das Paradies ist verriegelt
Von Tag zu Tag
Heinrich Boll
An der Werkbank
Adler über Gallien
Von den Nazis trennt mich eine Welt
Wayne G. Hammond
Wayne G. Hammond (born 1953)

librarian

  • Baldwin Wallace University, University of Michigan

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The graphic art of C.B. Falls
J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide : Volume 3
J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide : Volume 2
Roverandom
The lord of the rings
J.R.R. Tolkien - A Descriptive Bibliography
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Art of the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The J.R.R. Tolkien companion & guide
The Lord of the rings, 1954-2004
Art of the Lord of the Rings
Arthur Ransome
Art of the Hobbit
The art of The Lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Kaldeway Press of Poestenkill, New York
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Chronology
J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide : Volume 1
Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien. Der Künstler.
El arte de El Hobbit de J. R. R. Tolkien
Farmer Giles of Ham
J.R.R.Tolkien Centenary Conference Souvenir Book
El arte de El Señor de los Anillos de J. R. R. Tolkien
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Reader's Guide
J.R.R. Tolkien'den Hobbit Resimleri
El arte de El Señor de los Anillos de J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini
Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1910-1965)

journalist, librarian, poet lawyer

  • University of Turin

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Il poeta innamorato
Neve a Manhattan
La rosa rossa
L' amore di Lupo
I nobili di Rovigno e delle altre città istriane
Racconto d'amore
La rosa rossa
I giochi di Norma
L' amore di lupo [di] P.A. Quarantotti Gambini
I nostri simili [di] P.A. Quarantotti Gambini
Gli anni ciechi
La calda vita
Le redini bianche
La corsa di Falco
Le redini blanche
Primavera a Trieste e altri scritti
Amor militare
Sotto il cielo di Russia
Il cavallo Tripoli
I nostri simili
Il cavallo Tripoli [di] P.A. Quarantotti Gambini
Primavera a Trieste
Al sole e al vento [di] P.A. Quarantotti Gambini
Luce di Trieste
I giochi di Norma [di] P.A. Quarantotti Gambini
Al sole e al vento
Soleil et vent
L' onda dell'incrociatore
Na valu krstarice
I nostri simili
Sotto il cielo di Russia
Amor militare
Le trincee
Alexandre Louis Bertrand Robineau, dit de Beaunoir
Alexandre Louis Bertrand Robineau, dit de Beaunoir (1746-1823)

playwright, librarian

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Vida de Monseñor Manuel Abad Illana, obispo de Arequipa
Vénus pélerine
L'amour quêteur
L'Hymen et le dieu jaune
Histoire secrete et anecdotique de l'insurrection belgique
Jérome Pointu
Rose
Les amis du jour
Les masques arrachés
Jérome Pointu
Attila, ou, Le fléau de dieu
Théatre d'amour
L' écouteur aux portes
Fanfan et Colas
Le sculpteur
Le royaliste, ou, Lettres d'un franc ʹais re fugie sur les bords du Rhin
Vénus pélerine
L' Hymen et le dieu jaune
Jeannette
Les quatre coins
L' amour quêteur
Histoire secrete et anecdotique de l'insurrection belgique, ou, Vander-Noot
Le sculpteur, ou La femme comme il y en a peu, comédie, en deux actes, et en prose
Les amis du jour
Le danger des liaisons
Le Ramoneur prince, et Le prince ramoneur
La philosophe
Les amis du jour
Storia segreta ed aneddotica dell' insurrezione belgica, ossia, Vander-Noot
Les libellistes
George Călinescu
George Călinescu (1899-1965)

historian, journalist, literary historian, literary critic, biographer, playwright, high school teacher, librarian

  • Faculty of Letters (Bucharest University), Gheorghe Lazăr National College

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Viața lui Mihai Eminescu
Viaţa lui Mihai Eminescu
Viața lui Mihai Eminescu
Studii și comunicari
Studies in poetics
Universul poeziei
Texte social-politice, 1944-1965
Principii de estetica
Ion Creangă
Viaţa lui Mihai Eminescu [de] G. Cǎlinescu
Pagini de estetică
Gîlceava înteleptului cu lumea
G. Cǎlinescu și contemporanii săi
Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent
Mihai Eminescu
Studii și cercetări de istorie literară
Principii de estetică
La commode noire
Scrinul negru [de] G. Călinescu
Cartea nunţii
Curs de poezie
Cultură și națiune
Istoria literaturii romîne
Șun
Bietul Ioanide
Ion Vinea
Opere
G. Călinescu și contemporanii săi
Enigma Otiliei
Cartea nunții
Cronicile optimistului
Aforisme și reflecții
Istoria literaturii române
Scrinul negru
Daniel Solander
Daniel Solander (1733-1782)

botanist, librarian, naturalist, scientific explorer

  • Uppsala University

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Daniel Solander
Banks' florilegium
Captain Cook's florilegium
The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes, collected from the various parts of the globe by the late John Ellis