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'A Life of the Mind': New biography reexamines the mind of Hannah Arendt - review

Recently discovered archival material and underutilized sources in German to illuminate her experiences and ideas, about antisemitism and Zionism as well as philosophy.

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER
Hannah Arendt in 1958.
Peter Beinart speaking at a peace rally in New York City, August 2025

Why Peter Beinart is wrong about Iran: A misguided view of Israel’s security - opinion

Peter Beinart's 'Jewish Currents' column contains a number of irrational argumentations.

|ByYISRAEL MEDAD
Russia-born U.S. journalist Masha Gessen (front C) takes part in a protest against a proposed new law termed by the State Duma as "against advocating the rejection of traditional family values" in central Moscow June 11, 2013.

Masha Gessen will receive Hannah Arendt Prize, following controversy over Gaza essay

Gessen, a Jewish writer for The New Yorker magazine, published an essay last week comparing the Gaza Strip to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos, sparking backlash from Jewish and pro-Israel activists.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Hannah Arendt conducts a seminar at The New School in Manhattan, Feb. 19, 1969.

Follow in Hannah Arendt’s footsteps on this New York walking tour

Hannah Arendt biographer Samantha Rose Hill devised a walking tour of Arendt’s Upper West Side, from the shabby first apartment to that comfortable decorated apartment 12A.

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA

New Eichmann film puts the lie to Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’

It was not necessary for Hannah Arendt to actually observe and listen to Eichmann because to do so would undercut her thesis.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018ByALAN DERSHOWITZ
A scene from 'Operation Finale' starring Ben Kingsley as Adolf Eichmann

Hannah Arendt, white supremacist

It’s time to admit that through Arendt’s writing runs a thread of European white supremacy.

JUNE 5, 2016BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
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