G. Scholem's book "Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship" is an outstanding intellectual monument of the 20th century. Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), a philosopher, historian of religion, wrote memoirs of his closest friend Walter Benjamin. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German philosopher, history theorist, aesthetician, literary critic, writer, is one of the most influential thinkers of the last century. The best of Benjamin's existing biographies covers the widest range of problems of philosophy, aesthetics and the left movement, unfolding against the backdrop of the rise of fascism in Germany. The book was first published in German: Scholem, Gershom. Walter Benjamin — die Geschichte einer Freundschaft. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1975.