The Scholems: a story of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie from emancipation to destruction

Origins : from Glogau to Berlin

Berlin childhood around 1900 : growing up in the growing metropolis

Things fall apart : the First World War

Life in the time of revolutions : the early Weimar Republic

The gold-plated twenties and beyond : promise, prosperity, and depression in interwar Germany

In the promised land : a new home in Jerusalem

In the maelstrom : Jewish life in Nazi Germany

Cresting of the fifth wave : Gershom Scholem's Palestine in the 1930s

Afterlives : Sydney and Jerusalem.

Origins : from Glogau to Berlin

Berlin childhood around 1900 : growing up in the growing metropolis

Things fall apart : the First World War

Life in the time of revolutions : the early Weimar Republic

The gold-plated twenties and beyond : promise, prosperity, and depression in interwar Germany

In the promised land : a new home in Jerusalem

In the maelstrom : Jewish life in Nazi Germany

Cresting of the fifth wave : Gershom Scholem's Palestine in the 1930s

Afterlives : Sydney and Jerusalem