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Itta Shedletzky, ed. Gershom Scholem Briefe III: 1971-1982, Munich: C. H. Beck 1999. Pp. 517

Covering the last decade of Gershom Scholem's life, volume 3 completes the German edition of Gershom Scholem's mostly scholarly correspondence spanning over seven decades and reaching across the world, except when wartime censorship or Israeli postal strikes interrupted the flow of mail to and from Jerusalem. Scholem's sovereignly encyclopedic mind and his pen's succinct signatur...