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• W1991566104 abstract "The King Is Dead [and has been for three decades], Long Live the King:Contemporary Kabbalah and Scholem's Shadow Shaul Magid Jonathan Garb . The Chosen Will Become Herds: Studies in Twentieth Century Kabbalah. Translated by YaffaBerkovitz-Murciano. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 218. Pinchas Giller . Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. viii + 199. There is a myth that one can identify a demon, or dybuk, because it casts no shadow—meaning that its corporeality is a mere illusion. But what do we make of a human being who continues to cast a shadow almost three decades after his death? In short, what do we make of a disembodied shadow such as Gershom Scholem (1897-1982)? All of us who research the Jewish mystical tradition stand in that shadow and we often vie for our four ells inside its dark yet comforting embrace. In this shared space a scholarly carnival has continued unabated for the past three decades: Oedipal wars, romantic reconstructions, chivalrous defenses, sweeping misreadings, and self-serving caricatures are among the main attractions.1 No one has (yet) been able to fully step out of the giant's shadow. The no-man's land of the post-Scholem era has begun to [End Page 131] receive some attention but still remains unexplored territory.2 Perhaps the only way out of this anxiety of influence is through it, in this case by slowly deconstructing its contours, (re)reading the texts Scholem read and misread in a social, political, and ideational context Scholem could not have anticipated or one Scholem definitively devalued. Or, more relevant for our present concerns, reading—texts Scholem intentionally did not read against his better judgment—which gestures toward a kind of Kafkaesque reading of Scholem.3 In a forum in the previous issue of JQR I explored some of Scholem's attitudes toward contemporary Kabbalah in greater detail. Here I simply want to frame a discussion of two important new books on contemporary Kabbalah, one by the Israeli scholar Jonathan Garb and one by the American Pinchas Giller, as part of a growing body of literature that challenges some of Scholem's assumptions about the contemporary world by showing us new developments that he could not have predicted—developments that undermine Scholem's skeptical attitude toward the possibility of a kabbalistic renewal—and that should be taken seriously by scholars. Garb is associate professor of Jewish thought at the Hebrew University, [End Page 132] where he also earned his doctorate. Giller is professor of Jewish thought at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He earned his doctorate at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. Both have written on Kabbalah from the medieval period to the present. Without explicitly saying so, both offer quite different renderings of Scholem's position on the contemporary scene. In doing so, both begin a process of stepping outside Scholem's shadow into the uncharted territory of the twenty-first century. Jonathan Garb's The Chosen Will Become Herds, which originally appeared in Hebrew as Yeḥide ha-segulot yihyu le-'adarim, is the first book-length study devoted to twentieth-century Kabbalah.4 Although the book limits its scope largely to contemporary Israel, in the final chapter Garb briefly incorporates a more global view of the subject. Without explicitly mentioning Scholem, Garb gestures toward his intimidating presence when he justifies his project at the outset of the book. The aim of this book is to present the main currents of twentieth-century Kabbalah by focusing on various leitmotifs that characterizes it and differentiate it from the more classical forms of Kabbalah (p. 7). Garb posits that what he calls classical Kabbalah came to be distinguished from modern Kabbalah in the twentieth century, when Kabbalah took on a distinctly modern (and perhaps even postmodern) flavor . . . that accounts for the contemporary assimilation and influence of Kabbalah (p. 2).5 What it not clear from this assessment but is implied throughout the book is that the twentieth century has presented us with two radically new frames of reference: first, the politicization of Judaism through applied Zionism, that is, the modern..." @default.
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