What disaster in Europe influenced Scholem's work?
World War I
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Black Plague
The Final Solution
Answer
The Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe, profoundly influenced Gershom Scholem's work. This genocide triggered his shift from focusing solely on Jewish mysticism to actively engaging in preserving Jewish culture, heritage, and history as a response to the crisis within European Jewry caused by the Holocaust.
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