A.k.a. Gerhard Scholem (1897–1982) was a Jewish philosopher and noted kabbalah scholar rose in Germany; emigrates in 1923 to the British Mandate of Palestine.
The work noted above was originally published in German under the title Ursprung and Anfange der Kabbala.
First English translation 1987 (25 years later) by JPS
(Jewish Publication Society, NY)
[Note: material in this 1987 English translation provided key kabbalistic buttress for the philosophical work God and Evil by KTAV (already in manuscript form at–the–time, but published in November 1988)].