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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY:

Personal Memoirs

Lamentations of Youth
Gershom Scholem
Edited and translated by Anthony David Skinner
For decades, Scholem kept these diaries locked away. They remained unread by others until the meticulously edited German edition appeared in 2002. Lamentations of Youth gives insight into a crucial stage in Scholem's life, a time of incubation and growth for his later ideas, and makes available the diaries where Scholem forged his anarchic orthodoxy and chronicled his intense relationship with Walter Benjamin.
Hardcover January 2008