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Article: Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and work of a German Jewish Intellectual.(Review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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By Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, 282 pp., $45.00 hardcover, $20.00 paper.
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 ...