Gershom Sholem's chair

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Adam Kirsch's review of the book: Nextbook: The Truth Seeker. When Gershom Sholem was kicked out of his house in 1917 by his father; he moved to a Pension in Berlin, then full of eastern European Jews. He despised most people there and hated the Pension, but he became friendly with Zalman Rubashov future Zalman Shazar the President of Israel and Shmuel Czaczkes future Nobel Laureate in Literature S.Y. Agnon. Scholem met Shmuel Czaczkes, a native Galician who had lived in Palestine for several years before the war. Scholem’s first glimpse of the budding writer came in the library of Berlin’s Jewish Community Council, where he saw Czaczkes poring over the Hebrew card catalogue—looking, as he later explained, “for books that I have not read yet.”