Hannah Arendt Collection
Scope and Content Note
Folder 2 contains, "Natur und Geschichte", a transcript of a radio lecture on the philosophy of politics in the 20th century, and the contrasts and unity between nature and history, corrections, 28 pages
Folder 3 contains the manuscript, "Rahel Varnhagen ; Korrektur ihres Briefwechsels auf Grund der Berliner Archive". Also included in Folder 2 are typed lists of Rahel Varnhagen's correspondence and diary entries.
Folder 4 contains the manuscript, "Appendix : Aus unveroeffentlichten Briefen und Tagebuechern in chronologischer Folge". Also included is a typed list of Rahel Varnhagen's unpublished letters and diary entries.
Dates
- 1793-1996
Creator
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in GermanEnglish.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Born in Hanover on October 14, 1906, Hannah Arendt studied philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg. She emigrated to France in 1933 and to the United States in 1941, where she taught at several universities and achieved a reputation as a leading political philosopher. In Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York, 1963), a reflection on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, she refuses to place the sole responsibility for the Holocaust on the Nazis, and assigns blame as well to the Allied nations and to the Jewish communal leaders who passively cooperated with the Nazis. She died in New York on December 4, 1975.
Extent
4 Folders
Abstract
See inventory list
Other Finding Aid
Catalogue cards for the first folder (28 items)
- Title
- Guide to the Hannah Arendt Collection, 1793-1996 AR 2160 / MF 585
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2014
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
