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Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship Best Anthology & Best Single Issue or Story AND nominated for Best Biographical by every measureGershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationshipwhich was to remain crucial for both menis both a celebration of his friend's