American scholar of German-Jewish literature who translated Illuminations — the most widely read collection of Walter Benjamin's essays — introducing Benjamin to the English-speaking world.
His translation of Illuminations (1969) edited by Hannah Arendt made Benjamin's key essays ('The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'Theses on the Philosophy of History') available to anglophone readers.
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