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Hahn Barbara - Rahel Varnhagen The Life Of A Jewish Woman - Paperback
Hahn Barbara - Rahel Varnhagen The Life Of A Jewish Woman - Paperback
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Description: A biography of a Jewish woman a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth - and early nineteenth - century Germany written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals Hannah Arendt. 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 not published until the 1950s. It is the biography of a remarkable complicated passionate woman and an important figure in German romanticism. Rahel Varnhagen also bore the burdens of being an unusual woman in a man's world and an assimilated Jew in Germany. She was 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 assimilation defined 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 Arendt observes did she find a place in the history of European humanity.
Title: Rahel Varnhagen The Life Of A Jewish Woman
Author(s): Hahn Barbara
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375892
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 2/22/2022
Category: Biography: General
Description: A biography of a Jewish woman a writer who hosted a literary and political salon in late eighteenth - and early nineteenth - century Germany written by one of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals Hannah Arendt. 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 not published until the 1950s. It is the biography of a remarkable complicated passionate woman and an important figure in German romanticism. Rahel Varnhagen also bore the burdens of being an unusual woman in a man's world and an assimilated Jew in Germany. She was 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 assimilation defined 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 Arendt observes did she find a place in the history of European humanity.
Title: Rahel Varnhagen The Life Of A Jewish Woman
Author(s): Hahn Barbara
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375892
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 2/22/2022
Category: Biography: General
