Columns, Norman Finkelstein. Spuyten Duyvil (ISBN# 1-881471-73-X);144 pages. $10.00     In 1938, Gershom Scholem came to New York City from Jerusalem to the Jewish Institute of Religion to deliver the Strook lectures. He was forty years old. Upon his return to Jerusalem, his friend Walter Benjamin urged him to expand these lectures and publish them immediately. […]