"A Jew against the Jews": Simplifying it to an excessive degree, and that is exactly what a large part of the international Jewish community did, one could summarize the sharp controversy that erupted in the early 1960s with the publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem: "A Report on the Banality of Evil" by Hannah Arendt.

Her old friend Gershom Scholem, a close friend and collaborator of Walter Benjamin, a Zionist and a great expert in Kabbalah and Jewish tradition, immediately reacted with a letter of sharp criticism to Hannah Arendt, and of course she responded. Their correspondence is the subject of this book, which inaugurates the series "Two Letters" by Agora Publications.