Walter Benjamin
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxi
Benjamin in 1928
Walter Benjamin's membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1940)
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Walter Benjamin's Paris apartment at 10 rue Dombasle [fr] (1938–1940)
Walter Benjamin's grave in Portbou. The epitaph in German, repeated in Catalan, quotes from Section 7 of "Theses on the Philosophy of History": "There is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism"
Gershom Scholem
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Gershom Scholem was a German philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew
Walter Benjamin
…and had an oblique but overwhelmingly influential impact on the resurrection of the Kabbalah by virtue of his life-long epistolary relationship with Gershom Scholem. In popular culture and left-wing journalism he often appears as an exemplar whose experience is representative of the tragedy of German Jewish…
Scholem, 1935
Gershom Scholem sitting in Sukka studying the Zohar, 1925
Card catalogue which Gershom Scholem used to write his notes
Gershom Scholem House, 28 Abarbanel Street, Jerusalem