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Article: Hannah Arendt Revisited: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" und die Folgen. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review)
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Hannah Arendt Revisited: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" und die Folgen, edited by Gary Smith. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 2000. 312 pp. 12 Euro.
This collection of essays based on papers given at a conference, "Zur Historiographie des Holocaust: Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' Revisited," at the Einstein Forum in Berlin 1996 reflects a variety of perspectives, a few of them yielding new insights and even fewer contributing to a more differentiating historiography of "the Holocaust." Most of these essays document the enduring difficulties of many Jewish readers with Arendt's New Yorker report on the Eichmann trial. Four decades after the book's publication, Arendt's ...