Rahel Varnhagen : the life of a Jewish woman /

Rahel Varnhagen : the life of a Jewish woman /

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Author / Creator:	Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975, author.
Imprint:	New York : New York Review Books, 2022. ©1957
Description:	xxv, 236 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics.
Subject:	Varnhagen, Rahel, -- 1771-1833. Varnhagen, Rahel, -- 1771-1833. Jewish women -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography. Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Intellectual life. Intellectual life. Jewish women. Jews -- Intellectual life. Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life. Germany -- Berlin. Biography Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12773517

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Other authors / contributors:	Winston, Richard, translator. Winston, Clara, translator. Hahn, Barbara, 1952- writer of introduction.
ISBN:	9781681375892 1681375893 9781681375908
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. Includes bibliographical references (pages 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Woman was Hannah Arendt's first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though it would not be published until the 1950s.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.""--
Other form:	Online version: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Rahel Varnhagen New York : New York Review Books, 2021 9781681375908
Standard no.:	40031045431

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