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Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

  • 320 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1963
  • 53 editions
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1 About this book

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by political theorist Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on Adolf Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964.

Good for readers who want: history and a true life story.

  • History
  • Biography
  • War crime
  • World history
  • Holocaust
  • Jewish people
  • Persecutions
  • Genocide

2 About Hannah Arendt

1906–1975

Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American philosopher, political theorist, and public historian. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century. Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of wealth, power, fame, and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, tradition, and totalitarianism.

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