The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
Scholem, Gershom / Arendt, Hannah / Knott, Marie Luise / David, Anthony
The essence of the correspondence between Arendt and Scholem can be said to lie in three things. Above all it provides an intimate account of how two great intellectuals try to come to terms with being both German and Jewish, and how to think about Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust. They also debate the issue of what it means to be Jewish in the post-Holocaust world whether in New York or in Jerusalem. Finally, the specter of Ben...