[Walter Benjamin] shared with [Gershom] Scholem a fascination for textual fragments; indeed he had fallen into a mode of intellectual operation in which he himself was essentially a producer of fragments—aphorisms, travel notes, book reviews, feuilletons, short essays. The Arcades Project was to be a grand synthesis of nineteenth-century history through fragments. One suspects the project was conceived, unconsciously, to be undoable [...] he left behind only a heap of intriguing fragments. -- Robert Alter, 1995. Foreword in Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism[1]
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fragments in Hebrew Gematria equals 359
Units; Abstracts; Correlates; Frag; Ment; Literary diffusion; Fragmentation; Diffused corpus; Torn; Scatters; Pieces
- ↑ Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism is a work on the history of the Jewish Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem, published in 1941. | Wikipedia via google.com.