Rahel Varnhagen : the life of a Jewish woman
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Winston, Richard, translator.
Winston, Clara, translator.
Hahn, Barbara, 1952- writer of introduction.
Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2022].
Status
Central - Adult Biography
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2022].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxv, 236 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
Street Date
2111
Language
English

Notes

General Note
First English edition published in 1957 by East and West Library under the title: Rahel Varnhagen : the life of a Jewess.
General Note
"Additional changes in the present American edition have been based on the published German version (München 1959), preface to the revised edition."--Page xxvi.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-236).
Description
"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Woman was Hannah Arendt's first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though it would not be published until the 1950s.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.""--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Arendt, H., Winston, R., Winston, C., & Hahn, B. (2022). Rahel Varnhagen: the life of a Jewish woman . New York Review Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hannah Arendt et al.. 2022. Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman. New York Review Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hannah Arendt et al.. Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman New York Review Books, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Arendt, Hannah, Richard Winston, Clara Winston, and Barbara Hahn. Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman New York Review Books, 2022.

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