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The correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem spans from March 1933 to February 1940. The letters document the last period in Benjamin’s life: the problems of material existence, the personal relationship with Scholem and the pivotal topics of their intellectual exchange. To Benjamin, the Nazis‘ assumption of power not only meant exile and increasing restrictions of his possibilities to publish but also years of a gruelling fight to make a living. Reflections on Kafka are a...
The correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem spans from March 1933 to February 1940. The letters document the last period in Benjamin’s life: the problems of material existence, the personal relationship with Scholem and the pivotal topics of their intellectual exchange. To Benjamin, the Nazis‘ assumption of power not only meant exile and increasing restrictions of his possibilities to publish but also years of a gruelling fight to make a living. Reflections on Kafka are a frequent intellectual focus of the correspondence. Affinity and difference of Benjamin’s and Scholem’s thought become all the more clear the more similar the religio-philosophical terminological field in which the diverging interpretations are located is.
Gershom Scholem, 1897 – 1982, established a new strand of research with his work: the academic exploration of Jewish mysticism that opened up a new understanding of Jewish history. His work has been translated into 40 languages. His correspondences with Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt are legendary.
Gershom Scholem, 1897 – 1982, established a new strand of research with his work: the academic exploration of Jewish mysticism that opened...
Walter Benjamin was born on July 15, 1892 in Berlin as the oldest of three children and died by suicide on September 26, 1940 in Portbou, Spain. After graduating secondary school in 1912 he studied Philosophy, German Literature and Psychology in Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Berlin. In 1915, he met Gershom Scholem, a student of mathematics five years his junior, with whom he remained friends until his death. In 1917, Benjamin married Dora Kellner and became father to a son, Stefan Rafael (1918-1972). The marriage lasted for 13 years. Also in 1917, Benjamin relocated to Bern, Switzerland, where he obtained his PhD two years later with his thesis entitled »Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik bei Richard Herbertz«. In 1923/24 he met Theodor W. Adorno and...
Walter Benjamin was born on July 15, 1892 in Berlin as the oldest of three children and died by suicide on September 26, 1940 in Portbou, Spain....
Gershom Scholem’s name goes beyond the frontiers of Jewish Studies into the history of Jewish mysticism and Messianic Judaism. It is less well known that during his lifetime Scholem was intensely involved with poetry and translation as well as with philological questions on the theory of language. This edition shows the literary side of the famous academic. It provides a comprehensive and...
»I really like him and we find that we have an awful lot to say to each other« Gershom Scholem wrote to Walter Benjamin in 1938. With »he« Scholem meant Theodor W. Adorno, the man whom...
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How did Gershom Scholem, the great scholar and researcher of Jewish mysticism, assess Judaism’s chances of survival in a secularised world? The two texts in this volume shed light on this...
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Among Gershom Scholem’s works, the three volumes of the Judaica probably achieved the widest circulation. The publication of a fourth volume, which Scholem planned, was prevented by...
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»In the Zohar and other writings of the Kabbalah, Jewish mystics developed concepts and symbols to help them penetrate secrets of the cosmos that cannot be understood through reason or...
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