ד-פּאַקס<p>"Gershom Scholem brought kabbalism from the shadows into the lamplight of scholarship. He is the real-life protagonist in Steve Stern’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a>, A Fool’s Kabbalah; Menke Klepfisch is the novel’s fictional protagonist, and they make an odd pairing. Scholem is traveling <a href="https://babka.social/tags/postwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postwar</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> in search of looted <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> while, several years earlier, Klepfisch lives in a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/shtetl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shtetl</span></a>, a holy fool who finds himself entertaining <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> occupiers with his antics."</p><p><a href="https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/books/a-fool%E2%80%99s-kabbalah-by-steve-stern/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shepherdexpress.com/culture/bo</span><span class="invisible">oks/a-fool%E2%80%99s-kabbalah-by-steve-stern/</span></a></p>