Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem" Collection 1963-1966

Clippings, book reviews and published commentaries concerning Hannah Arendt's book "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and the controversy that it caused, in particular regarding the question of collaboration by Jewish communal organizations, notably the Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden, and the role of such leaders as Leo Baeck.Born in Hanover on October 14, 1906, Hannah Arendt studied philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg. She emigrated to France in 1933 and to the United States in 1941, where she taught at several universities and achieved a reputation as a leading political philosopher. In "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" (New York, 1963), a reflection on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, she refuses to place the sole responsibility for the Holocaust on the Nazis, and assigns blame also to the Allied nations and to the Jewish communal leaders, who passively cooperated with the Nazis. She died in New York on December 4, 1975.30 catalogue cards.Murmelstein, B. Steiner-Prag, Hugo.Finding aid available onlinedigitize