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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…
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Hannah Arendt is definitely one of the greatest 20th century philosophers. Her books, On Revolution, On the Origins of Totalitarianism, On Violence, The Human Condition are classics, as is her controversial coverage of Rudolf Eichmann’s trial, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
Yet there is probably no book that is more relevant to the contemporary issue of anti-Semitism and the present conflicts between Jews, Arabs and the Islamic world than The Jewish Writings. Back in 1948, Arendt hoped for the creation of a binational Jewish-Arab confederation and opposed the creation of a…
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