Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Map of the Scholems’ Berlin in the 1920s vii
4. Members of the Scholem Family ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Origins: From Glogau to Berlin 14
7. 2. Berlin Childhood around 1900: Growing Up in the Growing Metropolis 32
8. 3. Things Fall Apart: The First World War 47
9. 4. Life in the Time of Revolutions: The Early Weimar Republic 73
10. 5. The Gold-Plated Twenties and Beyond: Promise, Prosperity, and Depression in Interwar Germany 96
11. 6. In the Promised Land: A New Home in Jerusalem 127
12. 7. The Maelstrom: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany 142
13. 8. Cresting of the Fifth Wave: Gershom Scholem’s Palestine in the 1930s 172
14. 9. Afterlives: Sydney and Jerusalem 193
15. Conclusion 209
16. Acknowledgments 219
17. Notes 223
18. Bibliography 291
19. Index 321