'An invaluable document about not merely one but two of the century's most profound minds' - Kirkus Reviews
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was born in Berlin and emigrated to Palestine in 1923. He was a scholar of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. Lee Siegel is an associate editor of Artnews.
"The force of this remarkable memoir derives as much from the
insights it offers into the mind and beliefs of the writer as into
those of its subject." —Publishers Weekly
"Walter Benjamin [was] perhaps the most subtle, intuitive, and
creative critic of the age....Since Scholem is himself a great
scholar and thinker, since the intellectual comradeship between the
two was so intense for a long time, the commingling of their
thoughts comes to be even more revealing than the life-facts
themselves....An invaluable document about not merely one but two
of the century’s most profound minds." —Kirkus Reviews
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