Abstract
In 1946 Gershom Scholem was sent to Germany by the Hebrew University as a delegate to the Commission for Jewish Cultural Reconstruction. The aim of this journey to a devastated land was to locate Jewish books and manuscripts plundered by the Nazis in order to transfer them to the National Library in Jerusalem, thereby creating continuity between the old and the new by building a Jewish centre in the land of Israel. This essay charts that journey and reflects on how the months spent in Europe had a strong personal impact on Scholem, taking him back to his past and thereby confronting him with the destruction of European Jewry.
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