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Walter Benjamin

SOURCE: Mosaic Magazine
4-3-14

The Walter Benjamin Brigade

by Walter Laqueur

How an obscure and maddeningly opaque German Jewish intellectual became a thriving academic industry.

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Walter Benjamin

The Walter Benjamin Brigade

by Walter Laqueur