On This Day in Jewish History, 1897

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#onthisday, 1897, iconic historian and philosopher Gershom Scholem is born in Berlin, Germany to a secular Jewish family. His turn to Zionism and the Talmud forever changed the course of his life at the young age of 14.

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Text Source:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scholem/