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Rahel Varnhagen : The Life of a Jewess
Rahel Varnhagen The Life of a Jewess
Author: Hannah Arendt, Liliane Weissberg
She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, "my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years." Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel Varnhagen would come to host one of the most prominent salons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Arendt discovered her writings some time in the mid-1920s, and ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801855870
ISBN-10: 080185587X
Publication Date: 10/16/1997
Pages: 400
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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