Beginning of the friendship with Scholem

Berlin · 1915

Benjamin’s friendship with Gershom Scholem creates an enduring setting for discussions of language, theology and history. Later disagreements belong within this relationship.

Source

Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin: Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft (1975).
Howard Eiland; Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (2014).

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