Uncovering Walter Benjamin: Volume 1

A graphic biography, first installment. It opens in Berlin at the start of World War I. 23-year-old Walter Benjamin meets Gerhard Scholem, 17. They become fast friends. Benjamin is already a strikingly original thinker with a voracious curiosity. Scholem is forming the commitments that sent him to Palestine in 1923 and led him eventually to write the definitive book on Jewish mysticism. This is the story of a friendship between two extraordinary young men in a world that is falling apart. A...