Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

"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

The great Jewish scholar shares his insights into philosopher Walter Benjamin, a childhood friend who committed suicide in 1940. Reprint.