Walter Benjamin's notes, written while fleeing the Nazis

"...keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens."

While getting my Ph.D., I took a course on Walter Benjamin and The Frankfurt School of Aesthetics. I have loved Benjamin ever since. As we enter the Jewish New Year, I thought this would be an appropriate time to share his remarkable intellectual contribution — written under duress and in unspeakably bleak circumstances. I hope you find his notes as tho…