L'amicizia e la Shoah : corrispondenza con Leni Yahil / Hannah Arendt ; introduzione di Ilaria Possenti ; traduzione di Fabrizio Iodice.
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975 author
Book| Title |
Hannah Arendt and Leni Yahil : a friendship that failed the test. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Michman, Dan |
| Original Library/publisher |
Yad Vashem Studies. Jerusalem Mittelweg 36. Hamburg |
| Host Item |
Yad Vashem Studies 37,2 (2009) 19-65 |
| Description |
Discusses correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Israeli historian Leni Yahil from May 1961 to April 1963, with one letter sent by Yahil to Arendt in 1971. Their relationship was rather cordial at first, but after Yahil read four of Arendt's five articles, which later lay the ground for her "Eichmann in Jerusalem", the women's friendship became irreparably damaged. Many subjects cropped up in the correspondence, and they basically involved three areas: "the banality of evil" antisemitism, Germanness, and the Holocaust Jews, the Jewish people, Judaism, and God. The controversy influenced Yahil's historical writing, which can be seen in her "The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945". In contrast to Arendt's writing, Yahil's was characterized by a Jewish perspective she stressed the complex development of the Nazi anti-Jewish policies from 1933-45 and dealt extensively with the policies and role of the Jewish Councils during the war, using eyewitness accounts. Pp. 40-65 contain translations of the correspondence between Arendt and Yahil, most of which was written in German only two were in English. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) English and Hebrew. Includes the correspondence between Arendt and Yahil (pp. 40-65). Appeared in German as "Hannah Arendt und Leni Yahil: eine Freundschaft, die nicht standhielt" in "Mittelweg 36" 19 (2010) 25-42. |
| Language |
English German |
| Credits |
באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center |
| National Library system number |
990004887100705171 |
| Links |
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באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
MARC RECORDS
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