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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a JewessBOOK DETAILAmazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a freebusiness account Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (March 2, 2000)Language: English ISBN-10: 080186335X ISBN-13: 978-0801863356 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9inches Shipping Weight: 1 poundsStep By Step To Download Or Read Online1. Click Button "DOWNLOAD" Or "READ ONLINE"2. Sign Up To Acces "Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess"3. Choose the book you like when you register4. You can also cancel your membership if you are bored5. Enjoy and Happy Reading
Book DescriptionShe was, Hannah Arendt wrote, "my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundredyears." Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel Varnhagen wouldcome to host one of the most prominent salons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenthcenturies. Arendt discovered her writings some time in the mid-1920s, and soon began toreimagine Rahel's inner life and write her biography. Long unavailable and never beforepublished as Arendt intended, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess returns to print in anextraordinary new edition. Arendt draws a lively and complex portrait of a woman during theperiod of the Napoleonic wars and the early emancipation of the Jews, a figure who met andcorresponded with some of the most celebrated authors, artists, and politicians of her time. Shedocuments Rahel's attempts to earn legitimacy as a writer and gain access to the highestaristocratic circles, to assert for herself a position in German culture in spite of her gender andreligion. Arendt had almost completed a first draft of her book on Rahel by 1933 when she wasforced into exile by the National Socialists. She continued her work on the manuscript in Parisand New York, but would not publish the book until 1958. Rahel Varnhagen became not just astudy of a historical Jewish figure, but a poignant reflection on Arendt's own life and times, herfirst exploration of German-Jewish identity and the possibility of Jewish life in the face ofunimaginable adversity. For this first complete critical edition of the book in any language,Liliane Weissberg reconstructs the notes Arendt planned for Rahel Varnhagen but never fullyexecuted. She reveals the extent to which Arendt wove the biography largely from the words ofRahel and her contemporaries. In her extended introduction, Weissberg reflects on Rahel'swritings and on the importance of this text in the development of Arendt's political theory.Weissberg also reveals the hidden story of how Arendt manipulated documents relating to RahelVarnhagen to claim for herself a university position and reparation payments from the postwarGerman state.
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