Quote of the day
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Gershom Scholem

Born: December 5, 1897
Died: February 20, 1982 (aged 84)
Bio: Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Israel, changed his name to Gershom Scholem, was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian.
Known for:
- Major trends in Jewish mysticism (1941)
- From Berlin to Jerusalem (1980)
- Walter benjamin (1975)
- On the Kabbalah and its symbolism (1965)