Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess by Richard Winston, Clara Winston, Hannah Arendt

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

Richard Winston, Clara Winston, Hannah Arendt

388 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 eighte...

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