{"product_id":"the-jewish-writings-9780805242386","title":"The Jewish Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker  she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. When she was in her mid-twenties and still living in Germany  Arendt wrote about the history of German Jews as a people living in a land that was not their own. In 1933  at the age of twenty-six  she fled to France  where she helped to arrange for German and eastern European Jewish youth to quit Europe and become pioneers in Palestine. During her years in Paris  Arendts principal concern was with the transformation of antisemitism from a social prejudice to a political policy  which would culminate in the Nazi final solution to the Jewish questionthe physical destruction of European Jewry. After France fell at the beginning of World War II  Arendt escaped from an internment camp in Gurs and made her way to the United States. Almost immediately upon her arrival in New York she wrote one article after another calling for a Jewish army to fight the Nazis  and for a new approach to Jewish political thinking. After the war  her attention was focused on the creation of a Jewish homeland in a binational (Arab-Jewish) state of Israel. Although Arendts thoughts eventually turned more to the meaning of human freedom and its inseparability from political life  her original conception of political freedom cannot be fully grasped apart from her experience as a Jew. In 1961 she attended Adolf Eichmanns trial in Jerusalem. Her report on that trial  Eichmann in Jerusalem  provoked an immense controversy  which culminated in her virtual excommunication from the worldwide Jewish community. Today that controversy is the subject of serious re-evaluation  especially among younger people in America  Europe  and Israel. The publication of The Jewish Writingsmuch of which has never appeared beforetraces Arendts life and thought as a Jew. It will put an end to any doubts about the centrality  from beginning to end  of Arendts Jewish experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652312752181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805242384","price":101.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805242386.jpg?v=1781851036","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-jewish-writings-9780805242386","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}