Judging the Trial: Hannah Arendt as a Moral Philosopher of Nation-State Building

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Notes

1. Hanna Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: The Viking Press, 1963).

2. See, among others, Jacob Robinson, And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight: The Eichmann Trial, the Jewish Catastrophe and Hannah Arendt’s Narrative (New York: Macmillan, 1965); Gideon Hausner, Justice in Jerusalem (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1966); Michael Keren, “Ben-Gurion’s Theory of Sovereignty: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” in David Ben-Gurion: Politics and Leadership in Israel, ed. R. Zweig (London: Frank Cass, 1991), 38–51; Richard Wolin, “The Ambivalences of German-Jewish Identity: Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem,” History and Memory 8.2 (1996): 9–34; Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. Steven E. Aschheim (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Hanna Yablonka, The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann (New York: Schoken Books, 2004); Elhanan Yakira, “Hannah Arendt, the Holocaust, and Zionism: A Story of a Failure,” Israel Studies 11.3 (2006): 31–61; Idith Zertal, “A State on Trial: Hannah Arendt vs. the State of Israel,” Social Research 70.4 (2007): 1127–58.

3. See Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman. Critical edition ed. by Liliane Weissberg (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

4. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951; New York: Schocken Books, 2004).

5. Hannah Arendt, The Jewish Writings, ed. Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman (New York: Schocken Books, 2007).

6. See Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949–1975, ed. Carol Brightman (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1995).

7. Arendt to Karl Jaspers, 26 March 1966, in Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers, Correspondence, 1926–1969, ed. L. Kohler and H. Saner (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992), 632.

8. Hannah Arendt, “Antisemitism” (c. 1938–39), in The Jewish Writings (see note 5) 55.

9. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (see note 4), 290.

10. Moshe Zimmermann, “Hannah Arendt, the Early ‘Post-Zionist’,” in Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. by. Steven E. Aschheim (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001), 181–93.

11. See Alek D. Epstein, “For the Peoples of the Promised Land: Intellectual and Social Origins of Jewish Pacifism in Israel,” Journal of Israeli History 19.2 (1998): 5–20; Tamar Hermann, “Pacifism and Anti-Militarism in the Period Surrounding the Birth of the State of Israel,” Israel Studies 15.2 (2010): 127–48.

12. Arendt to Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem, 24 July 1963, in Arendt, The Jewish Writings, 466.

13. Adam Kirsch, “Arendt’s Conflicted Zionism,” The New York Sun, 21 March 2007. See also Hannah Arendt, “Zionism Reconsidered,” Menora (New York), October 1944, 162–96.

14. Stephen J. Whitfield, “Hannah Arendt,” in Jewish Women in America, ed. Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore (New York: Routledge, 1997), 61–64.

15. As Alfred Kazin remembers, according to Michael R. Marrus, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: Justice and History,” in Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. Steven E. Aschheim (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001), 205.

16. See Raluca Munteanu Eddon, “Gershom Sholem, Hannah Arendt and the Paradox of ‘Non-Nationalist’ Nationalism,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 28–31 August 2003.

17. See Alek D. Epstein, “State-Mediated ‘Hierarchy of Diversities’ and the Freedom of Individual Self-Identification: Towards a Dynamic Liberal Model of Multiculturalism,” New Global Development: Journal of International and Comparative Social Welfare 15 (1999): 36–51.

18. See Hannah Arendt, Essays in Understanding, 1930–1954, ed. J. Kohn (New York: Schocken Books, 2005), 11–12.

19. Natan Sznaider, “Human, Citizen, Jew,” Haaretz, 27 October 2006. See also Natan Sznaider, “Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Cosmopolitanism: Between the Universal and the Particular,” European Journal of Social Theory 10.1 (2007): 112–22.

20. Hannah Arendt, “To Save the Jewish Homeland” [1948], in The Jewish Writings, 394–95

21. Arendt to Karl Jaspers, 17 December 1946, in Arendt and Jaspers, Correspondence, 70.

22. Steven E. Aschheim, “Hannah Arendt and the Modern Jewish Experience,” The Times Literary Supplement, 26 September 2007.