The Jewish writings / Hannah Arendt ; edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman.

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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 [Browse]
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Book
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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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    "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.
    ISBN
    • 9780805242386
    • 0805242384
    LCCN
    2006044380
    OCLC
    70176931
    Other standard number
    • 99816122247
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