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Article: Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual.(Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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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 taken Rahel to task for her split attitude towards her Jewishness), has recently (1997) been reprinted. Tewarson criticizes Arendt's portrayal of Karl Varnhagen von Ense, whom Rahel married in 1814, as a weak man who falsified much of Rahel's correspondence prior to publication. According to Tewarson, who has had the chance to scrutinize the relevant documents, Varnhagen ...
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