Walter Benjamin: The Story Of A Friendship

Gershom Gerhard Scholem; Lee Siegel (Introduction by); Harry Zohn (Translator)

Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his...