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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
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Varnhagen, Rahel, 1771-1833.
Jewish women -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Jewish women authors -- Germany -- 18th century -- Biography.
Jewish authors -- Germany -- 18th century -- Biography.
Authors, German -- 18th century -- Biography.
Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Intellectual life.
Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life.
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
Varnhagen, Rahel, 1771-1833.
Jewish women -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Jewish women authors -- Germany -- 18th century -- Biography.
Jewish authors -- Germany -- 18th century -- Biography.
Authors, German -- 18th century -- Biography.
Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Intellectual life.
Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life.
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Rahel
Varnhagen : the life of a Jewish woman / by Hannah Arendt ; translated from the German by Richard Winston and Clara Winston ; introduction by Barbara Hahn.
by
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
New York Review Books, 2022.
Call #:
921 V319a
Subjects
Varnhagen,
Rahel
,
1771-1833
.
Jewish women -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Jewish women authors -- Germany -- 18th century -- Biography.
Jewish authors -- Germany -- 18th century -- Biography.
Authors, German -- 18th century -- Biography.
Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Intellectual life.
Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life.
Series
New York Review Books classics
ISBN:
9781681375892 (pbk)
Description:
xxv, 236 p. : portrait ; 21 cm.
Notes:
First English edition published in 1957 by East and West Library under the title:
Rahel
Varnhagen : the life of a Jewess.
"Additional changes in the present American edition have been based on the published German version (München 1959), preface to the revised edition."--Page xxvi.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-236).
Summary:
"
Rahel
Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah Arendt's first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though it would not be published until the 1950s. It is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism, the person who in a sense founded the Goethe cult that would become central to German cutural life in the nineteenth century, as well as someone who confronted and bore the burden of being both a woman in a man's world and an assimilated Jew in Germany with unusual determination.
Rahel
Levin
Varnhagen, was, Hannah Arendt writes, 'neither beautiful nor attractive... and possessed no talents with which to employ her extraordinary intelligence and passionate originality.' Arendt sets out to tell the story of
Rahel
's life as
Rahel
might have told it and, in doing so, to reveal the way in which intellectual and social assimilation works out in one person's destiny. On her deathbed
Rahel
is reported to have said, 'The thing which all my life seemed to me the greatest shame, which was the misery and misfortune of my life -- having been born a Jewess -- this I should on no account now wish to have missed.' Only because she had remained both a Jew and a pariah, Hannah Arendt observes, "did she find a place in the history of European humanity.""--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
Other authors:
Winston, Richard.
Winston, Clara.
Hahn, Barbara, 1952-
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