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The Jewish writings / Hannah Arendt ; edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman.
Author
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
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English
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New York : Schocken Books, ©2007.
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lxxvi, 559 pages ; 24 cm
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DS125 .A66 2007
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Jews
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History
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1789-1945
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Jews
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1945-
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Antisemitism
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Zionism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Feldman, Ron H.
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Summary note
"Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. When she was in her mid-twenties and still living in Germany, Arendt wrote about the history of German Jews as a people living in a land that was not their own. In 1933, at the age of twenty-six, she fled to France, where she helped to arrange for German and eastern European Jewish youth to quit Europe and become pioneers in Palestine. During her years in Paris, Arendt's principal concern was with the transformation of antisemitism from a social prejudice to a political policy, which would culminate in the Nazi "final solution" to the Jewish question-the physical destruction of European Jewry. After France fell at the beginning of World War II, Arendt escaped from an internment camp in Gurs and made her way to the United States. Almost immediately upon her arrival in New York she wrote one article after another calling for a Jewish army to fight the Nazis, and for a new approach to Jewish political thinking. After the war, her attention was focused on the creation of a Jewish homeland in a binational (Arab-Jewish) state of Israel. Although Arendt's thoughts eventually turned more to the meaning of human freedom and its inseparability from political life, her original conception of political freedom cannot be fully grasped apart from her experience as a Jew. In 1961 she attended Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. Her report on that trial, Eichmann in Jerusalem, provoked an immense controversy, which culminated in her virtual excommunication from the worldwide Jewish community. Today that controversy is the subject of serious re-evaluation, especially among younger people in America, Europe, and Israel. The publication of The Jewish Writings--much of which has never appeared before--traces Arendt's life and thought as a Jew. It will put an end to any doubts about the centrality, from beginning to end, of Arendt's Jewish experience"--Publisher's information.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface: A Jewish Life: 1906-1975 / Jerome Kohn ix
Publication History xxxvii
Introduction: The Jew as Pariah: The Case of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) / Ron H. Feldman xli
I The 1930s
The Enlightenment and the Jewish Question 3
Against Private Circles 19
Original Assimilation: An Epilogue to the One Hundredth Anniversary of Rahel Varnhagen's Death 22
The Professional Reclassification of Youth 29
A Guide for Youth: Martin Buber 31
Some Young People Are Going Home 34
The Gustloff Trial 38
The Jewish Question 42
Antisemitism 46
II The 1940s
The Minority Question 125
The Jewish War That Isn't Happening: Articles from Aufbau, October 1941-November 1942 134
Between Silence and Speechlessness: Articles from Aufbau, February 1943-March 1944 186
The Political Organization of the Jewish People: Articles from Aufbau, April 1944-April 1945 199
Jewish Politics 241
Why the Cremieux Decree Was Abrogated 244
New Leaders Arise in Europe 254
A Way toward the Reconciliation of Peoples 258
We Refugees 264
The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition 275
Creating a Cultural Atmosphere 298
Jewish History, Revised 303
The Moral of History 312
Stefan Zweig: Jews in the World of Yesterday 317
The Crisis of Zionism 329
Herzl and Lazare 338
Zionism Reconsidered 343
The Jewish State: Fifty Years After, Where Have Herzl's Politics Led? 375
To Save the Jewish Homeland 388
The Assets of Personality: A Review of Chaim Weizmann: Statesman, Scientist, Builder of the Jewish Commonwealth 402
Single Track to Zion: A Review of Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann 405
The Failure of Reason: The Mission of Bernadotte 408
About "Collaboration" 414
New Palestine Party: Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed 417
III The 1950s
Peace or Armistice in the Near East? 423
Magnes, the Conscience of the Jewish People 451
The History of the Great Crime: A Review of Breviaire de la haine: Le IIIe Reich et les juifs [Breviary of Hate: The Third Reich and the Jews] / Leon Poliakov 453
IV The 1960s
The Eichmann Controversy: A Letter to Gershom Scholem 465
Answers to Questions Submitted / Samuel Grafton 472
The Eichmann Case and the Germans: A Conversation with Thilo Koch 485
The Destruction of Six Million: A Jewish World Symposium 490
"The Formidable Dr. Robinson": A Reply / Hannah Arendt 496
Afterword: "Big Hannah"-My Aunt / Edna Brocke 512.
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ISBN
9780805242386
0805242384
LCCN
2006044380
OCLC
70176931
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99816122247
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