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Article: Recovering the ephemeral.(Heidi Thomann Tewarson's biography of Rahel Levin Varnhagen)
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- The Women's Review of Books
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- June 1, 1999
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What is an intellectual woman? At bottom, this is the question that Heidi Thomann Tewarson's new biography of Rahel Levin Varnhagen poses, and to which it provides a complex, multi-layered answer. Rahel Levin Varnhagen does not fit convenient categories of literary production, despite her reputation as one of the great women figures of German Romanticism. In English, perhaps the best-known work on her has been Hannah Arendt's biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess, recently republished with an excellent introduction by Liliane Weissberg (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). However, Arendt's book - originally written in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and first ...
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Article: Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and Work of ...
Journal of European Studies;
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...By Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 1998. Pp.262. [pounds]19.00. Tewarson provides a long overdue scholarly assessment of Rahel to place alongside Hanna Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen: Life of a Jewess (1957). Arendt's book, though quirkily tendentious (Arendt had
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