It now seems that nearly everything has been saved. The manuscripts hidden in Paris were, in accordance with Benjamin’s instructions, sent to Theodor W. Adorno; according to Tiedemann (op. cit., p. 212), they are now in Adorno’s ‘private collection’ in Frankfurt. Reprints and copies of most texts are also in Gershom Scholem’s personal collection in Jerusalem. The material confiscated by the Gestapo has turned up in the German Democratic Republic. See ‘Der Benjamin-Nachlass in Potsdam’ by Rosemarie Heise in alternative, October-December, 1967.

8. Cf. ‘Walter Benjamin hinter seinen Briefen,’ Merkur, March 1967.

9. Cf. Pierre Missac, ‘L’Eclat et le secret: Walter Benjamin,’ Critique, Nos. 231–32, 1966.

10. Max Rychner, the recently deceased editor of the Neue Schweizer Rundschau, was one of the most cultivated and most refined figures in the intellectual life of the time. Like Adorno, Ernst Bloch, and Scholem, he published his ‘Erinnerungen an Walter Benjamin’ in Der Monat, September, 1960.

11. Ibid.

12. Kafka, whose outlook on these matters was more realistic than that of any of his contemporaries, said that ‘the father complex which is the intellectual nourishment of many … concerns the Judaism of the fathers … the vague consent of the fathers (this vagueness was the outrage)’ to their sons’ leaving of the Jewish fold: ‘with their hind legs they were still stuck to the Judaism of their fathers, and with the forelegs they found no new ground’ (Franz Kafka, Briefe, p. 337).

13. Ibid., p. 55.

14. Ibid., p. 339.

15. Ibid, p. 337.

16. Ibid., pp. 336–38.

17. Franz Kafka, Tagebücher, p. 42.

18. Franz Kafka, Briefe, p. 347.

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