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RAHEL VARNHAGEN - HANNAH ARENDT TASCHENBUCH

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when she went into exile from Germany in 1933  though it would not be published until the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.--

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