Gershom

Author Gershom Mabaquiao explains that the trend started off being about "the unseriousness of self-presentation", but since it has become bigger than social media and permeated society, it's being interpreted in a "very literal way".

Gershom Gorenberg, author of “The Accidental Empire” and other critical histories of Israel, considers it essential even if, all these years later, necessarily incomplete: “Still the best popular history — keeping in mind that much source material has been revealed since it was written.”

“Even more than the psychology of the leader, it is the psychology of the led that demands to be understood,” wrote Gershom Scholem, the great historian of Jewish messianism.

The false 18th century Messiah Jacob Frank “will always be remembered as one of the most frightening phenomena in the whole of Jewish history,” as Gershom Scholem put it.

In his Sept. 1 op-ed, “Fighting over land that’s growing less livable,” Gershom Gorenberg lamented the futility of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and noted that the real issue is whether in a few years it will be possible for anyone to live on the land under any circumstance.