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- catalog abstract ""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 close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationship - which was to remain crucial for both men - is both a celebration of his friend's genius and a lament for the personal and intellectual self-destructiveness that culminated in Benjamin's suicide in 1940." "Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship is an absorbing memoir with the complication of character and motive of a novel. As Scholem revisits the passionate engagements over Marxism and Kabbala, Europe and Palestine that he shared with Benjamin, it is as if he sought to summon up his lost friend's spirit again, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12835462.
- catalog contributor b12835463.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""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 close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationship - which was to remain crucial for both men - is both a celebration of his friend's genius and a lament for the personal and intellectual self-destructiveness that culminated in Benjamin's suicide in 1940." "Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship is an absorbing memoir with the complication of character and motive of a novel. As Scholem revisits the passionate engagements over Marxism and Kabbala, Europe and Palestine that he shared with Benjamin, it is as if he sought to summon up his lost friend's spirit again, to have the last word in the argument that might have saved his life."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 302 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1590170326 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "New York Review Books classics".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New York Review Books,".
- catalog subject "838/.91209 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, German 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "PT2603.E455 Z8913 2001".
- catalog subject "Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982.".
- catalog title "Walter Benjamin : the story of a friendship / Gershom Scholem ; translated from the German by Harry Zohn ; introduction by Lee Siegel.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".