Arendt

[rich]

this may have been posted already but two part article on two films: the
Arendt film already discussed and Claude Lanzmann's new documentary about
Benjamin Murmelstein, head of the *Judenrat *at Theresienstadt. worth
reading

rich

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/21/arendt-eichmann-new-truth/

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/dec/05/defense-jewish-collaborator/


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>  I Don't think Arendt herself was interested in halos.  And some of her
> opinions seem pretty strained to me, but i think she was consistent and
> willing to face any truth. She was accused of nasty stuff when she wrote
> about Eichmann and Jewish leaders who collaborated with nazis. No one
> discredited her information, only her willingness to disclose these things
> about people who were fundamentally victims. I was concerned that this
> post-war story was an accusation made at that time to smear her rather than
> based on real evidence.  What I have reda held no such information and said
> their affair ended when he publicly sided with the Nazis.
>
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> On Dec 2, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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> > Even Ms. Levy-Bruhl, with, evidently, an authorative book now in its
> second edition
> > explores reasons for Hannah renewing her 'friendship' with Martin in the
> 50's.
> >
> > Hannah believed in 'continuity' she herself said and is why, she said.
> > Ok, then.
> >
> > None of this takes anything away from her actions and (some of) her
> thinking, imho.
> >
> > You want to grant her secular sainthood, joseph, go right ahead.
> > And I still think TRP read The Origins of Totalitarianism....
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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