Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)