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342:. In addition it represents an early version of her concept of history. Arendt's relation to Varnhagen permeates her subsequent work. Her examination of Varnhagen's life is set against the background of the catastrophic destruction of German-Jewish culture and its demonstrations of the illusion of any true German-Jewish "symbiosis" and the threatened existence of her subject. In this sense the book partially reflects Arendt's own view of herself as a German Jewish woman driven out of her own culture into a 36: 1216: 251: 1228: 1240: 1204: 314:. A later biography of the subject by Heidi Thomann Tewarson (2001) distanced itself from Arendt's work, which its author considered too critical of Varnhagen. Arendt dedicated the book to her life-long friend Anne Mendelssohn, who had first drawn her attention to Varnhagen's writing. 305:
Germany. She took the manuscript with her into exile in Paris, where she was able to complete it in 1938. Forced to flee once again, this time without her manuscript, she arrived in America in 1941. However, she had given a copy to
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Rahel Varnhagen is ostensibly a biography of this nineteenth century Jewish socialite, and formed an important step in Arendt's analysis of Jewish history and the subjects of
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Zebadúa Yáñez, Verónica (November 18, 2017). "Reading the Lives of Others: Biography as Political Thought in Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir".
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she completed it in exile as a refugee, but was not published till 1957, in English, in the UK (London) by East and West Library.
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Sebastián, Alicia Poza (2002). "Arendt, Hannah: Rahel Varnhagen, Vida de Una Mujerjudía, Lumen, Barcelona, 2000".
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Azria, Régine (1987). "Review of Rahel Varnhagen. La vie d'une juive allemande à l'époque du romantisme".
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existence. In this sense the work has been referred to as "biography as autobiography".
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1st ed. Preface ix–xxv; 2nd ed. Preface to Second Edition ix–xxxvi, Preface xxxvii-l
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Gerhardt, Christina (2001). "Review of Rahel Varnhagen. The Life of a Jewess".
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Es ist mit dem Leben etwas gemeint: Hannah Arendt über Rahel Varnhagen
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Hannah Arendt
Biography
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Portrait of Rahel Varnhagen in 1800
Rahel Varnhagen
Rahel Varnhagen
Hannah Arendt
Habilitationsschrift
habilitation
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