The Jewish Writings

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ully grasped apart from her experience as a Jew. In 1961 she attended Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. Her report, 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 the United States, 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. About the Author Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was the editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948, and taught at Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and The New School for Social Research. Arendt died in 1975. Table of Contents Preface: A Jewish Life: 1906-1975 by Jerome Kohn A Note on the Text Publication History Introduction: The Jew as Pariah: The Case of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) by Ron H. Feldman I THE 1930s -The Enlightenment and the Jewish Question -Against Private Circles -Original Assimilation: An Epilogue to the One Hundredth Anniversary of Rahel Varnhagen's Death -The Professional Reclassification of Youth -A Guide for Youth: Martin Buber -Some Young People Are Going Home -The Gustloff Trial -The Jewish Question -Antisemitism II THE 1940s -The Minority Question -The Jewish War That Isn't Happening: Articles from Aufbau, October 1941-November 1942 -Between Silence and Speechlessness: Articles from Aufbau, February 1943-March 1944 -The Political Organization of the Jewish People: Articles from Aufbau, April 1944-April 1945 -Jewish Politics -Why the Cr

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