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Walter Benjamin in 1936, in exile, published a small book, Deutsche Menschen (German Men & Women), a collection of letters by German literary figures of the past. He wanted to hold up examples of honest writing in a time when it seemed that all language had turned false.
Here's a letter from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-87), written after the death of his wife:
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"My wife is dead. Now I have had that experience, too. I am glad there cannot be many more such events in store for me --- that lightens my spirit. It is also a comfort to rely on your condolences, and those of our other friends in Braunschweig."
--What a letter! Benjamin quotes it as an example of the humanity of laconic style. The call to laconism may be even more urgent in today's world of oversharing and automated eloquence.
#laconism #GottholdEphraimLessing #WalterBenjamin #DeutscheMenschen #letters
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Walter Benjamin in 1936, in exile, published a small book, Deutsche Menschen (German Men & Women), a collection of letters by German literary figures of the past. He wanted to hold up examples of honest writing in a time when it seemed that all language had turned false.
Here's a letter from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-87), written after the death of his wife:
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"My wife is dead. Now I have had that experience, too. I am glad there cannot be many more such events in store for me --- that lightens my spirit. It is also a comfort to rely on your condolences, and those of our other friends in Braunschweig."
--What a letter! Benjamin quotes it as an example of the humanity of laconic style. The call to laconism may be even more urgent in today's world of oversharing and automated eloquence.
#laconism #GottholdEphraimLessing #WalterBenjamin #DeutscheMenschen #letters
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Walter Benjamin in 1936, in exile, published a small book, Deutsche Menschen (German Men & Women), a collection of letters by German literary figures of the past. He wanted to hold up examples of honest writing in a time when it seemed that all language had turned false.
Here's a letter from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-87), written after the death of his wife:
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"My wife is dead. Now I have had that experience, too. I am glad there cannot be many more such events in store for me --- that lightens my spirit. It is also a comfort to rely on your condolences, and those of our other friends in Braunschweig."
--What a letter! Benjamin quotes it as an example of the humanity of laconic style. The call to laconism may be even more urgent in today's world of oversharing and automated eloquence.
#laconism #GottholdEphraimLessing #WalterBenjamin #DeutscheMenschen #letters
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Walter Benjamin in 1936, in exile, published a small book, Deutsche Menschen (German Men & Women), a collection of letters by German literary figures of the past. He wanted to hold up examples of honest writing in a time when it seemed that all language had turned false.
Here's a letter from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-87), written after the death of his wife:
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"My wife is dead. Now I have had that experience, too. I am glad there cannot be many more such events in store for me --- that lightens my spirit. It is also a comfort to rely on your condolences, and those of our other friends in Braunschweig."
--What a letter! Benjamin quotes it as an example of the humanity of laconic style. The call to laconism may be even more urgent in today's world of oversharing and automated eloquence.
#laconism #GottholdEphraimLessing #WalterBenjamin #DeutscheMenschen #letters
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Walter Benjamin in 1936, in exile, published a small book, Deutsche Menschen (German Men & Women), a collection of letters by German literary figures of the past. He wanted to hold up examples of honest writing in a time when it seemed that all language had turned false.
Here's a letter from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-87), written after the death of his wife:
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"My wife is dead. Now I have had that experience, too. I am glad there cannot be many more such events in store for me --- that lightens my spirit. It is also a comfort to rely on your condolences, and those of our other friends in Braunschweig."
--What a letter! Benjamin quotes it as an example of the humanity of laconic style. The call to laconism may be even more urgent in today's world of oversharing and automated eloquence.
#laconism #GottholdEphraimLessing #WalterBenjamin #DeutscheMenschen #letters
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"These three friends represent the three poles of Benjamin’s intellectual trajectory: Scholem embodied the messianic legacy of Judaism, Brecht the radical potential of the avant-gardes, and Adorno the attempt to turn Marxism into a theory of culture and what Benjamin called the ‘structure of experience’. All three sought to keep the critical-revolutionary tradition alive in the face of fascism."
#WalterBenjamin’s Would-Be Rescuers
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/may/walter-benjamin-s-would-be-rescuers
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"These three friends represent the three poles of Benjamin’s intellectual trajectory: Scholem embodied the messianic legacy of Judaism, Brecht the radical potential of the avant-gardes, and Adorno the attempt to turn Marxism into a theory of culture and what Benjamin called the ‘structure of experience’. All three sought to keep the critical-revolutionary tradition alive in the face of fascism."
#WalterBenjamin’s Would-Be Rescuers
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/may/walter-benjamin-s-would-be-rescuers
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"These three friends represent the three poles of Benjamin’s intellectual trajectory: Scholem embodied the messianic legacy of Judaism, Brecht the radical potential of the avant-gardes, and Adorno the attempt to turn Marxism into a theory of culture and what Benjamin called the ‘structure of experience’. All three sought to keep the critical-revolutionary tradition alive in the face of fascism."
#WalterBenjamin’s Would-Be Rescuers
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/may/walter-benjamin-s-would-be-rescuers
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"These three friends represent the three poles of Benjamin’s intellectual trajectory: Scholem embodied the messianic legacy of Judaism, Brecht the radical potential of the avant-gardes, and Adorno the attempt to turn Marxism into a theory of culture and what Benjamin called the ‘structure of experience’. All three sought to keep the critical-revolutionary tradition alive in the face of fascism."
#WalterBenjamin’s Would-Be Rescuers
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/may/walter-benjamin-s-would-be-rescuers
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Memória e justiça: um dia para não esquecer
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Als Widerstandskämpferin, Fluchthelferin, Kommunistin und Jüdin war Resignation für sie keine Option. #LisaFittko & ihr Mann führten von 1940-1941 von der Auslieferung an die Nazis bedrohte #Flüchtlinge illegal über die #Pyrenäen -Grenze von #Frankreich nach Spanien, darunter auch #WalterBenjamin.
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Als Widerstandskämpferin, Fluchthelferin, Kommunistin und Jüdin war Resignation für sie keine Option. #LisaFittko & ihr Mann führten von 1940-1941 von der Auslieferung an die Nazis bedrohte #Flüchtlinge illegal über die #Pyrenäen -Grenze von #Frankreich nach Spanien, darunter auch #WalterBenjamin.
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La cima y las simas de #Baudelaire 📖📕 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2021/04/la-cima-y-las-simas-de-baudelaire.html Te propongo recordar algunos momentos de la vida y obra del escritor acompañados por obras de #Gautier, #WalterBenjamin, #Debussy, #Faure, #Corigliano y #Minazzoli
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La cima y las simas de #Baudelaire 📘🎶 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2021/04/la-cima-y-las-simas-de-baudelaire.html Te propongo recordar algunos momentos de la vida y obra del escritor acompañados por obras de #Gautier, #WalterBenjamin, #Debussy, #Faure, #Corigliano y #Minazzoli
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La cima y las simas de #Baudelaire 📖📕 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2021/04/la-cima-y-las-simas-de-baudelaire.html Te propongo recordar algunos momentos de la vida y obra del escritor acompañados por obras de #Gautier, #WalterBenjamin, #Debussy, #Faure, #Corigliano y #Minazzoli
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La cima y las simas de #Baudelaire 📘📖 https://letrasprestadas-clubpickwick.blogspot.com/2021/04/la-cima-y-las-simas-de-baudelaire.html Te propongo recordar algunos momentos de la vida y obra del escritor acompañados por obras de #Gautier, #WalterBenjamin, #Debussy, #Faure, #Corigliano y #Minazzoli
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Que video de leitura e discussão maravilhoso esse do João Carvalho com o Alexandre Linck!
Como sou lerdo, assisti pela terceira vez."POR QUE A GENTE NÃO CONSEGUE MAIS TRANSMITIR NADA?"
https://youtu.be/r2dfYVIUdas#quadrinhosnasargeta #assimdisseojoao #historia #sociologia #filosofia #walterbenjamin
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"It is the tradition of the oppressed in which the working class enters the stage as the final enslaved, avenging and liberating class... For both are nourished by the true image of enslaved ancestors rather than by the ideal image of liberated descendants. At the beginning of the Russian Revolution this awareness was still alive. The motto “no glory for the victor, no sympathy for the defeated” is so poignant because it expresses solidarity with the dead brothers rather than with future generations" - Walter Benjamin
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"It is the tradition of the oppressed in which the working class enters the stage as the final enslaved, avenging and liberating class... For both are nourished by the true image of enslaved ancestors rather than by the ideal image of liberated descendants. At the beginning of the Russian Revolution this awareness was still alive. The motto “no glory for the victor, no sympathy for the defeated” is so poignant because it expresses solidarity with the dead brothers rather than with future generations" - Walter Benjamin
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New York’s Jewish Museum opens Paul Klee exhibition without its centrepiece – The Art Newspaper
A Paul Klee exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York opened as planned on 20 March—except that…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Exhibitions #israel #IsraelMuseum #NewYorkCity #PaulKlee #TheJewishMuseum #UK #UnitedKingdom #WalterBenjamin #War
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(10/11) ... + vente des bagues de fiançailles ornées de diamants a augmenté de 55 % société de publicité N.W. Ayer recruté par entreprise afrikaners De Beers (cf 1888) = diamant #terre est un élément sine qua non du mariage #religion = vendre aux Américains idée que les diamants sont synonymes de bonheur éternel -> nouveau marché post 14-18 + bague ...
#livre L’œuvre d' #art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique de #WalterBenjamin
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(10/11) ... + vente des bagues de fiançailles ornées de diamants a augmenté de 55 % société de publicité N.W. Ayer recruté par entreprise afrikaners De Beers (cf 1888) = diamant #terre est un élément sine qua non du mariage #religion = vendre aux Américains idée que les diamants sont synonymes de bonheur éternel -> nouveau marché post 14-18 + bague ...
#livre L’œuvre d' #art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique de #WalterBenjamin
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(10/11) ... + vente des bagues de fiançailles ornées de diamants a augmenté de 55 % société de publicité N.W. Ayer recruté par entreprise afrikaners De Beers (cf 1888) = diamant #terre est un élément sine qua non du mariage #religion = vendre aux Américains idée que les diamants sont synonymes de bonheur éternel -> nouveau marché post 14-18 + bague ...
#livre L’œuvre d' #art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique de #WalterBenjamin
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(10/11) ... + vente des bagues de fiançailles ornées de diamants a augmenté de 55 % société de publicité N.W. Ayer recruté par entreprise afrikaners De Beers (cf 1888) = diamant #terre est un élément sine qua non du mariage #religion = vendre aux Américains idée que les diamants sont synonymes de bonheur éternel -> nouveau marché post 14-18 + bague ...
#livre L’œuvre d' #art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique de #WalterBenjamin
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(10/11) ... + vente des bagues de fiançailles ornées de diamants a augmenté de 55 % société de publicité N.W. Ayer recruté par entreprise afrikaners De Beers (cf 1888) = diamant #terre est un élément sine qua non du mariage #religion = vendre aux Américains idée que les diamants sont synonymes de bonheur éternel -> nouveau marché post 14-18 + bague ...
#livre L’œuvre d' #art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique de #WalterBenjamin
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I have for a while been a bit bummed that I would never get to see Angelus Novus in person. As a child I lived right next to the Israel Museum and went frequently, but of course I didn't know about @WalterBenjamin. And now there is no way am I setting foot in Israel again—barring some fundamental, and sadly increasingly unlikely, changes. And now this! Well, I guess at least I don't have to be tempted to go visit the U.S.?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/arts/paul-klee-angelus-novus-israel.html
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I have for a while been a bit bummed that I would never get to see Angelus Novus in person. As a child I lived right next to the Israel Museum and went frequently, but of course I didn't know about @WalterBenjamin. And now there is no way am I setting foot in Israel again—barring some fundamental, and sadly increasingly unlikely, changes. And now this! Well, I guess at least I don't have to be tempted to go visit the U.S.?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/arts/paul-klee-angelus-novus-israel.html
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I have for a while been a bit bummed that I would never get to see Angelus Novus in person. As a child I lived right next to the Israel Museum and went frequently, but of course I didn't know about @WalterBenjamin. And now there is no way am I setting foot in Israel again—barring some fundamental, and sadly increasingly unlikely, changes. And now this! Well, I guess at least I don't have to be tempted to go visit the U.S.?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/arts/paul-klee-angelus-novus-israel.html
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I have for a while been a bit bummed that I would never get to see Angelus Novus in person. As a child I lived right next to the Israel Museum and went frequently, but of course I didn't know about @WalterBenjamin. And now there is no way am I setting foot in Israel again—barring some fundamental, and sadly increasingly unlikely, changes. And now this! Well, I guess at least I don't have to be tempted to go visit the U.S.?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/arts/paul-klee-angelus-novus-israel.html
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"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."
"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/
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"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."
"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/
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"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."
"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/
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"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."
"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/
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"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."
"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/
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(5/5) ... Américains jusqu'à querelle diplomatique : Italie/USA au bord de la guerre (cf 1965) + Texas -> Atlanta : naissance de Bessie Coleman 12e enfants du couple afro-américain/trois quarts indien Choctaw travaillant dans les champs de coton à Waxahachie (cf 1915 1920).
- Empire Austro-Hongrois : Berlin -> naissance de #WalterBenjamin (cf 1933 1940).
- Naissance d'Edmond François Calvo (cf 1945 1957). -
(5/5) ... Américains jusqu'à querelle diplomatique : Italie/USA au bord de la guerre (cf 1965) + Texas -> Atlanta : naissance de Bessie Coleman 12e enfants du couple afro-américain/trois quarts indien Choctaw travaillant dans les champs de coton à Waxahachie (cf 1915 1920).
- Empire Austro-Hongrois : Berlin -> naissance de #WalterBenjamin (cf 1933 1940).
- Naissance d'Edmond François Calvo (cf 1945 1957). -
(5/5) ... Américains jusqu'à querelle diplomatique : Italie/USA au bord de la guerre (cf 1965) + Texas -> Atlanta : naissance de Bessie Coleman 12e enfants du couple afro-américain/trois quarts indien Choctaw travaillant dans les champs de coton à Waxahachie (cf 1915 1920).
- Empire Austro-Hongrois : Berlin -> naissance de #WalterBenjamin (cf 1933 1940).
- Naissance d'Edmond François Calvo (cf 1945 1957). -
(5/5) ... Américains jusqu'à querelle diplomatique : Italie/USA au bord de la guerre (cf 1965) + Texas -> Atlanta : naissance de Bessie Coleman 12e enfants du couple afro-américain/trois quarts indien Choctaw travaillant dans les champs de coton à Waxahachie (cf 1915 1920).
- Empire Austro-Hongrois : Berlin -> naissance de #WalterBenjamin (cf 1933 1940).
- Naissance d'Edmond François Calvo (cf 1945 1957). -
(5/5) ... Américains jusqu'à querelle diplomatique : Italie/USA au bord de la guerre (cf 1965) + Texas -> Atlanta : naissance de Bessie Coleman 12e enfants du couple afro-américain/trois quarts indien Choctaw travaillant dans les champs de coton à Waxahachie (cf 1915 1920).
- Empire Austro-Hongrois : Berlin -> naissance de #WalterBenjamin (cf 1933 1940).
- Naissance d'Edmond François Calvo (cf 1945 1957). -
Inzwischen hat #WalterBenjamin „in #Marseille auch das spanische und das portugiesische Transitvisum erhalten. Nur an der französischen Ausreiseerlaubnis ist er gescheitert wie alle anderen #Exilanten auch.“ Es gibt nur einen Weg: in den Pyrenäen illegal über die spanische Grenze. #Flucht #VarianFry
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Inzwischen hat #WalterBenjamin „in #Marseille auch das spanische und das portugiesische Transitvisum erhalten. Nur an der französischen Ausreiseerlaubnis ist er gescheitert wie alle anderen #Exilanten auch.“ Es gibt nur einen Weg: in den Pyrenäen illegal über die spanische Grenze. #Flucht #VarianFry
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#WalterBenjamin über die notwendige Rückeroberung der Kritik: »Da zudem seit fast hundert Jahren jedes ungewaschene Feuilleton für Kritik sich in Deutschland ausgeben darf, so ist, dem kritischen Wort seine Gewalt zurückzugewinnen, doppelt geboten.«
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»Bei der Verteilung der Sportpreise wurde der Name Isaacsohn genannt. Das Gelächter einer Minderheit erscholl darauf. Solange noch einer dieser Lacher einen Platz unter der freideutschen Jugend hat, wird sie ohne Adel und Jugendlichkeit sein.« #WalterBenjamin 1913
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Und so sehen wir, wie die dringendste Forderung moderner Pädagogik nichts will als Raum für die werdende Kultur schaffen.« 2/2 #WalterBenjamin
