Talk:University of Muri

Sources??

What is the source for this story? This is a whole entry without any source or reference.warshy 15:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the relevant maintenance tag to the article. LukeSurl 15:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. warshy 15:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've got sources for the two quotes but am new to wikipedia and don't know how to put them in. Can you help me out?

This sounds good! I am too relatively new, but I am willing to work with you on these quotes you mention. Why don't you first post them here, on the talk page, and after we look at them we can discuss the best way to insert them into the main article/page? warshy 16:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great! All the quotes come from Gershom Scholem. The one about Eisler at the end comes from his "From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of my youth" pg. 129 which also mentions that he and Benjamin founded the U of M. The rest of the information comes from "Walter Benjamin: The story of a Friendship." which has its longest sustained discussion of the topic on pg.58. The first book is the 1980 Schocken edition the second is the 1981 JPS edition. Thanks a lot for your help and interest.

Hello 71.228.24.9! I'd suggest you associate this login id with a user name that may be easier to recognize and identify, something like a real user name, not just an IP number/adress. Then your Talk page also could be more identifiable (with some identifying traits) and addressable. I'll start working on incorporating the references you give into the main page. Thanks again! warshy 14:57, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've tracked down the quote you refer to, I read it some time ago and it took a bit of time. In any case, it is in an essay titled "Walter Benjamin and his Angel" which is in the collection by Gerschom Scholem called "Jews and Judaism in Crisis" Schocken Books 1976, p.212 BenGL 23:42, 11 April 2007 RightO! Sorry about that, new like I said. Anyway, I'm BenGL.

Hello BenGL. I am Yuval Warshai, and I'm hoping I'll get some time to insert your references on the page sometime within the next two or three days. Thanks. warshy 11:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In rereading the article, the following sentence still sounds a bit obscure to me, and I think the references you give don't exactly cover the following quote:

In his essay Walter Benjamin and his Angel Scholem writes, "The guardian angel of the Kabbalah from the year 1921 has become the guardian angel of the University of Muri, in whose Transactions a "philosopher" and a "kabbalist"-- who in a traditional sense were neither a philosopher nor a kabbalist-- made the traditional university and its scholars the object of their derision."

Do you know the above essay by Scholem? Where was it published? Thanks. warshy 12:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just learned the cool way to edit only the specific header section and already puts the title there. My previous editings here were missing the correct Header/Link. And, after you're done you also sign, like this... warshy 15:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've tracked down the quote you refer to, I read it some time ago and it took a bit of time. In any case, it is in an essay titled "Walter Benjamin and his Angel" which is in the collection by Gerschom Scholem called "Jews and Judaism in Crisis" Schocken Books 1976, p.212 BenGL 23:42, 11 April 2007