<DIV><p>"A serene, lucid, and stylish essay in intellectual autobiography that at the same time commemorates a vanished world."?<I>The Times Literary Supplement</I></p><p><I>From Berlin to Jerusalem </I>portrays the dual dramas of the author's total break from his middle-class German Jewish family and his ever-increasing dedication to the study of Jewish thought. Played out during the momentous years just before, during, and after World War I, these experiences eventually led Gershom Scholem to immigrate to Palestine in 1923.</p><p><B>Gershom Scholem </B>was professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem until his death in 1982.</p></DIV>