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Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Identity

Neither Parvenu Nor Pariah

Bard College, New York vromen{at}bard.edu

Drawing extensively on her letters and published writings, this study synthesizes Hannah Arendt’s own perspectives on her Jewish identity and the views of others, and then offers a reconsideration. What emerges is that Arendt’s Jewishness is problematic and interesting to her only in relation to Germany and Israel, and not in the American context where she engages in a universalistic discourse transcending identity conflicts and perplexities.

Key Words: Alfred Kazin • anti-Semitism • assimilation • Bernard Lazare • Daniel Bell • Eichman trial • Hannah Arendt • Heinrich Bluecher • Jewish identity • Karl Jaspers • Rahel Varnhagen • Zionism

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