Scholem wrongly claimed authorship of a saying that truly came from Nachman of Breslov

Evidence

However, it appears that Scholem’s memory deceives him both here and when he subsequently claims that the appropriation of his saying revealed to him ‘what honors one can garner for oneself with an apocryphal sentence’, for ‘Benjamin and Bloch’s attributions were not actually wrong’: the saying really did come from a rabbi, the tzaddik rabbi Nachman of Breslov, ‘who knew how to tell the tale of exchange and change to something only very slightly different’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1543

Categorization

• XREF: A fun case of intellectual provenance error within the Frankfurt School circle; connects to how ideas get misattributed in scholarly genealogies.