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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 “Jewish state.”
On the one hand, Arendt brilliantly and objectively analyses the historical genesis of anti-Semitism. On the other hand, she denounces the anti-Palestinian anti-Arab nature of Israeli Zionism as it originated in 1948… It is perhaps not surprising how few people seem to know of her December 1948 letter,…
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…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
Memory for Forgetfulness is a powerful memoir of the siege of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and the August 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which, in many ways, represents the predecessor to the Israeli-Hamas, Israeli-Hezbollah conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon since the horrific Hamas attacks on Gaza on October 7, 2023 that in turn provoked such a democidal Israeli response. With a dark and sardonic sense of humor (one must forgive the translator for passages that must be nearly impossible to translate), the poem seeks to break through the boundaries of language in its effort to depict the clash between memory and forgetfulness, between feelings of hope and depression, and between efforts to understand the human world through objective observations and flights of fancy and misinterpretation that, like bombs, drop unexpectedly from the sky and then explode upon reality with deadly accuracy and inaccuracy…
One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in…
