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Books

We Refugees

– Menorah Journal 31, no. 1 (1943): 69-77.

Race-Thinking Before Racism

– The Review of Politics 6, no. 01 (1944): 36-73.
Abstract: If race-thinking were a German invention, as it is now sometimes asserted, then “German thinking” (whatever that may be) was victorious in many parts of the spiritual world… More

Privileged Jews

– Jewish Social Studies 8/1 (January 1946): 3-30.
Reprinted in Duker and Ben-Horin, Emancipation and Counteremancipation. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1947.

The Jewish State: Fifty Years After

– Commentary 1 (May 1946): 1-8.
Introduction: Rereading Herzl’s The Jewish State today is a peculiar experience. One becomes aware that those things in it that Herzl’s own contemporaries would have called utopian… More

The Road to the Dreyfus Affair (Review)

– Commentary 11 (February 1951): 201-03.
A review of Robert F. Byrnes, Anti-Semitism in Modern France. Excerpt: Anti-Semitism is a deplorably neglected area of modern history, and every contribution that does more than simply add… More

The History of the Great Crime (Review)

– Commentary, March 1952.
Excerpt: Léon Poliakov’s excellent book on the Third Reich and the Jews is the first to describe the last phases of the Nazi regime on the basis, strictly, of primary source material.… More

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

– Revised edition translated into English by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Critical edition edited by Liliane Weissberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Summary: She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, “my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years.” Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel… More

Eichmann in Jerusalem (The New Yorker)

– The New Yorker, in five issues: February 16, February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; 1963.
Summary: Before it was published as a book, Arendt’s report from the trial of Eichmann appeared in five installments in The New Yorker. Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V

Walter Benjamin

– The New Yorker, October 19, 1968.
Abstract: Essay on Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish writer, who died in 1940 & has achieved posthumous fame. Benjamin’s position was that of a free-lance writer but his… More

The Jew as Pariah

– Edited and with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
Summary: A collection of Arendt’s essays and letters on: The Destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, The Relationship of World Jewry to the State of Israel, Israel and the Arabs,… More

The Jewish Writings

– Edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman. New York: Schocken Books, 2007.
Summary: Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about… More

Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question

– Bernstein, Richard J. Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
From the Publisher: Hannah Arendt (1906-­1975) was one of the most original and interesting political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new interpretation of her career,… More

The Banality of Evil: The Demise of a Legend

– Wolin, Richard. Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2014.
Introduction: There have been few phrases that have proved as controversial as the famous subtitle Hannah Arendt chose to sum up her account of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. From the… More

Essays

We Refugees

– Menorah Journal 31, no. 1 (1943): 69-77.

Race-Thinking Before Racism

– The Review of Politics 6, no. 01 (1944): 36-73.
Abstract: If race-thinking were a German invention, as it is now sometimes asserted, then “German thinking” (whatever that may be) was victorious in many parts of the spiritual world… More

Privileged Jews

– Jewish Social Studies 8/1 (January 1946): 3-30.
Reprinted in Duker and Ben-Horin, Emancipation and Counteremancipation. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1947.

The Jewish State: Fifty Years After

– Commentary 1 (May 1946): 1-8.
Introduction: Rereading Herzl’s The Jewish State today is a peculiar experience. One becomes aware that those things in it that Herzl’s own contemporaries would have called utopian… More

The Road to the Dreyfus Affair (Review)

– Commentary 11 (February 1951): 201-03.
A review of Robert F. Byrnes, Anti-Semitism in Modern France. Excerpt: Anti-Semitism is a deplorably neglected area of modern history, and every contribution that does more than simply add… More

The History of the Great Crime (Review)

– Commentary, March 1952.
Excerpt: Léon Poliakov’s excellent book on the Third Reich and the Jews is the first to describe the last phases of the Nazi regime on the basis, strictly, of primary source material.… More

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

– Revised edition translated into English by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Critical edition edited by Liliane Weissberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Summary: She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, “my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years.” Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel… More

Eichmann in Jerusalem (The New Yorker)

– The New Yorker, in five issues: February 16, February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; 1963.
Summary: Before it was published as a book, Arendt’s report from the trial of Eichmann appeared in five installments in The New Yorker. Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V

Walter Benjamin

– The New Yorker, October 19, 1968.
Abstract: Essay on Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish writer, who died in 1940 & has achieved posthumous fame. Benjamin’s position was that of a free-lance writer but his… More

The Jew as Pariah

– Edited and with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
Summary: A collection of Arendt’s essays and letters on: The Destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, The Relationship of World Jewry to the State of Israel, Israel and the Arabs,… More

The Jewish Writings

– Edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman. New York: Schocken Books, 2007.
Summary: Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about… More

Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question

– Bernstein, Richard J. Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
From the Publisher: Hannah Arendt (1906-­1975) was one of the most original and interesting political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new interpretation of her career,… More

The Banality of Evil: The Demise of a Legend

– Wolin, Richard. Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2014.
Introduction: There have been few phrases that have proved as controversial as the famous subtitle Hannah Arendt chose to sum up her account of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. From the… More

Commentary

We Refugees

– Menorah Journal 31, no. 1 (1943): 69-77.

Race-Thinking Before Racism

– The Review of Politics 6, no. 01 (1944): 36-73.
Abstract: If race-thinking were a German invention, as it is now sometimes asserted, then “German thinking” (whatever that may be) was victorious in many parts of the spiritual world… More

Privileged Jews

– Jewish Social Studies 8/1 (January 1946): 3-30.
Reprinted in Duker and Ben-Horin, Emancipation and Counteremancipation. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1947.

The Jewish State: Fifty Years After

– Commentary 1 (May 1946): 1-8.
Introduction: Rereading Herzl’s The Jewish State today is a peculiar experience. One becomes aware that those things in it that Herzl’s own contemporaries would have called utopian… More

The Road to the Dreyfus Affair (Review)

– Commentary 11 (February 1951): 201-03.
A review of Robert F. Byrnes, Anti-Semitism in Modern France. Excerpt: Anti-Semitism is a deplorably neglected area of modern history, and every contribution that does more than simply add… More

The History of the Great Crime (Review)

– Commentary, March 1952.
Excerpt: Léon Poliakov’s excellent book on the Third Reich and the Jews is the first to describe the last phases of the Nazi regime on the basis, strictly, of primary source material.… More

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

– Revised edition translated into English by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Critical edition edited by Liliane Weissberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Summary: She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, “my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years.” Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel… More

Eichmann in Jerusalem (The New Yorker)

– The New Yorker, in five issues: February 16, February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; 1963.
Summary: Before it was published as a book, Arendt’s report from the trial of Eichmann appeared in five installments in The New Yorker. Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V

Walter Benjamin

– The New Yorker, October 19, 1968.
Abstract: Essay on Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish writer, who died in 1940 & has achieved posthumous fame. Benjamin’s position was that of a free-lance writer but his… More

The Jew as Pariah

– Edited and with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
Summary: A collection of Arendt’s essays and letters on: The Destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, The Relationship of World Jewry to the State of Israel, Israel and the Arabs,… More

The Jewish Writings

– Edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman. New York: Schocken Books, 2007.
Summary: Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about… More

Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question

– Bernstein, Richard J. Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
From the Publisher: Hannah Arendt (1906-­1975) was one of the most original and interesting political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new interpretation of her career,… More

The Banality of Evil: The Demise of a Legend

– Wolin, Richard. Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2014.
Introduction: There have been few phrases that have proved as controversial as the famous subtitle Hannah Arendt chose to sum up her account of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. From the… More

Multimedia

We Refugees

– Menorah Journal 31, no. 1 (1943): 69-77.

Race-Thinking Before Racism

– The Review of Politics 6, no. 01 (1944): 36-73.
Abstract: If race-thinking were a German invention, as it is now sometimes asserted, then “German thinking” (whatever that may be) was victorious in many parts of the spiritual world… More

Privileged Jews

– Jewish Social Studies 8/1 (January 1946): 3-30.
Reprinted in Duker and Ben-Horin, Emancipation and Counteremancipation. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1947.

The Jewish State: Fifty Years After

– Commentary 1 (May 1946): 1-8.
Introduction: Rereading Herzl’s The Jewish State today is a peculiar experience. One becomes aware that those things in it that Herzl’s own contemporaries would have called utopian… More

The Road to the Dreyfus Affair (Review)

– Commentary 11 (February 1951): 201-03.
A review of Robert F. Byrnes, Anti-Semitism in Modern France. Excerpt: Anti-Semitism is a deplorably neglected area of modern history, and every contribution that does more than simply add… More

The History of the Great Crime (Review)

– Commentary, March 1952.
Excerpt: Léon Poliakov’s excellent book on the Third Reich and the Jews is the first to describe the last phases of the Nazi regime on the basis, strictly, of primary source material.… More

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

– Revised edition translated into English by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Critical edition edited by Liliane Weissberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Summary: She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, “my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years.” Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel… More

Eichmann in Jerusalem (The New Yorker)

– The New Yorker, in five issues: February 16, February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; 1963.
Summary: Before it was published as a book, Arendt’s report from the trial of Eichmann appeared in five installments in The New Yorker. Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V

Walter Benjamin

– The New Yorker, October 19, 1968.
Abstract: Essay on Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish writer, who died in 1940 & has achieved posthumous fame. Benjamin’s position was that of a free-lance writer but his… More

The Jew as Pariah

– Edited and with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
Summary: A collection of Arendt’s essays and letters on: The Destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, The Relationship of World Jewry to the State of Israel, Israel and the Arabs,… More

The Jewish Writings

– Edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman. New York: Schocken Books, 2007.
Summary: Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about… More

Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question

– Bernstein, Richard J. Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
From the Publisher: Hannah Arendt (1906-­1975) was one of the most original and interesting political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new interpretation of her career,… More

The Banality of Evil: The Demise of a Legend

– Wolin, Richard. Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2014.
Introduction: There have been few phrases that have proved as controversial as the famous subtitle Hannah Arendt chose to sum up her account of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. From the… More

Teaching

We Refugees

– Menorah Journal 31, no. 1 (1943): 69-77.

Race-Thinking Before Racism

– The Review of Politics 6, no. 01 (1944): 36-73.
Abstract: If race-thinking were a German invention, as it is now sometimes asserted, then “German thinking” (whatever that may be) was victorious in many parts of the spiritual world… More

Privileged Jews

– Jewish Social Studies 8/1 (January 1946): 3-30.
Reprinted in Duker and Ben-Horin, Emancipation and Counteremancipation. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1947.

The Jewish State: Fifty Years After

– Commentary 1 (May 1946): 1-8.
Introduction: Rereading Herzl’s The Jewish State today is a peculiar experience. One becomes aware that those things in it that Herzl’s own contemporaries would have called utopian… More

The Road to the Dreyfus Affair (Review)

– Commentary 11 (February 1951): 201-03.
A review of Robert F. Byrnes, Anti-Semitism in Modern France. Excerpt: Anti-Semitism is a deplorably neglected area of modern history, and every contribution that does more than simply add… More

The History of the Great Crime (Review)

– Commentary, March 1952.
Excerpt: Léon Poliakov’s excellent book on the Third Reich and the Jews is the first to describe the last phases of the Nazi regime on the basis, strictly, of primary source material.… More

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

– Revised edition translated into English by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Critical edition edited by Liliane Weissberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Summary: She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, “my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years.” Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel… More

Eichmann in Jerusalem (The New Yorker)

– The New Yorker, in five issues: February 16, February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; 1963.
Summary: Before it was published as a book, Arendt’s report from the trial of Eichmann appeared in five installments in The New Yorker. Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V

Walter Benjamin

– The New Yorker, October 19, 1968.
Abstract: Essay on Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish writer, who died in 1940 & has achieved posthumous fame. Benjamin’s position was that of a free-lance writer but his… More

The Jew as Pariah

– Edited and with an introduction by Ron H. Feldman. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
Summary: A collection of Arendt’s essays and letters on: The Destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, The Relationship of World Jewry to the State of Israel, Israel and the Arabs,… More

The Jewish Writings

– Edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman. New York: Schocken Books, 2007.
Summary: Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about… More

Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question

– Bernstein, Richard J. Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
From the Publisher: Hannah Arendt (1906-­1975) was one of the most original and interesting political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new interpretation of her career,… More

The Banality of Evil: The Demise of a Legend

– Wolin, Richard. Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2014.
Introduction: There have been few phrases that have proved as controversial as the famous subtitle Hannah Arendt chose to sum up her account of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. From the… More