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- Title
People of the Epistle: Letters in Jewish Intellectual Life Part I.
- Authors
HOROWITZ, ELLIOTT; DOHRMANN, NATALIE B.
- Abstract
The article discusses translations, triangular relations, and spiritual permutations associated with Jewish intellectual life. It states that remarks of literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin on his friend Gershom Gerhard Scholem, and mentions that Scholem had begun translating from Hebrew into German when he first gained mastery of Hebrew as a teenager. It notes Benjamin's intellectually dense criticisms of early translations of Jewish literature.
- Subjects
JEWISH literature; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; SCHOLEM, Gershom Gerhard, 1897-1982; CABALA in literature; TRANSLATIONS
- Publication
Jewish Quarterly Review, 2017, Vol 107, Issue 3, p379
- ISSN
0021-6682
- Publication type
Article