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Hannah Arendt

German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt (Courtesy)
June 27, 2025, 5:40 pm
How Hannah Arendt faced down tyranny in the US, far from Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial
New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany to McCarthy-era America — and draws a modern-day parallel
By Rich Tenorio
Netflix miniseries creator 'Transatlantic' creator Anna Winger (Courtesy)
April 17, 2023, 10:01 am
Not ‘Holocaust distortion’ but creativity, says creator of Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’
Anna Winger’s series is based on Varian Fry’s real-life rescue of thousands of European artists and intellectuals; critics warn of historical inaccuracies caused by dramatization
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Hannah Arendt conducts a seminar at The New School in Manhattan, February 19, 1969. (Neal Boenzi/New York Times Co./Getty Images/ via JTA)
April 25, 2022, 2:25 am
Follow in Hannah Arendt’s footsteps on this New York walking tour
Biographer Samantha Rose Hill shows the personal side of the sometimes-controversial philosopher who fled Hitler’s Germany to become the center of NYC’s intellectual scene
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Adolph Eichmann (circled) in a photo reportedly provided by Gerhard Klammer (second from right) which helped the Mossad identify the infamous Nazi ear criminal. (Screen capture)
August 25, 2021, 7:48 pm
Eichmann was nabbed by Mossad after tipoff from German co-worker, report reveals
60 years on, anti-Nazi geologist Gerhard Klammer named as man behind photo that convinced Israel to launch mission to capture architect of the Nazis’ ‘Final Solution’
By ToI Staff
Adolf Eichmann is seen standing in his bullet proof glass box as the charges against him are read during judical proceedings in the Beit Ha'Am building in Jerusalem, April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/Str)
May 8, 2020, 10:45 am
History in the making: The Mossad mission to capture Adolf Eichmann
How Israel’s spy agency laid its hands on one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals and brought him to trial in Jerusalem
By Karinne Delorme
Adolf Eichmann, so-called 'architect' of the Holocaust, in his prison cell during the time of his 1961 trial in Jerusalem (public domain)
August 30, 2018, 11:33 pm
The banality of lies: In ‘Operation Finale,’ Eichmann’s falsehoods are validated
Opening this weekend, the film, focused on the kidnapping of Holocaust ‘architect,’ humanizes its notorious antagonist and allows his deceptions to go unchallenged
By Matt Lebovic
Painting of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz Ghetto's Jewish Council, created by Lodz painter Izrael Lejzerowicz during the ghetto's four-year existence (Public domain)
March 28, 2017, 8:48 pm
‘King Chaim,’ ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit
As Henryk Ross’s haunting photographs premiere in the US, a snapshot of the Lodz ghetto council’s infamous chairman Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski — who thought himself a Jewish ‘savior’
By Matt Lebovic
David Friedman (left), the choice of President-elect Donald Trump to serve as ambassador to Israel, and German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt (Bradley C Bower/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images/JTA; Public domain)
December 20, 2016, 3:14 pm
On David Friedman, the ‘kapo’ smear, and Jewish honor
As Trump’s pick for ambassador has demonstrated, some 60 years after the Jewish ‘collaborator’ trials in Israel, the term still packs a venomous punch
By Matt Lebovic
Barbara Sukowa as Friderike Zweig and Josef Hader as Stefan Zweig in 'Stefan Zweig' (Dor Film)
November 14, 2016, 1:54 pm
Austria’s Oscar contender explores exile’s tragic effects on Jewish writer Stefan Zweig
Innovative historical feature film takes on new meaning for audiences watching through lens of contemporary political events
By Renee Ghert-Zand
German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt (courtesy)
January 17, 2016, 2:32 pm
Hannah Arendt’s angst was born in the US, says author
New book ‘Arendt And America’ discusses how the philosopher’s residence in New York shaped — or distorted — her worldview
By JP O’ Malley
Knesset member Jamal Zahalke is approached by ushers after calling Deputy Speaker Moshe Feiglin (right) a 'fascist,' on Monday, November 11, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube/Knesset Channel)
November 24, 2014, 10:57 pm
Feiglin boots MK from plenum for calling him ‘fascist’
Balad’s Jamal Zahalka forced off Knesset podium by ushers; earlier, Hadash lawmaker tells deputy speaker to ‘go choke’
By Lazar Berman
An exhibition in Yad Vashem in 2011 on the 50th anniversary of Adolf Eichmann's trail in Jerusalem. His personal diary and photos from his trial are shown. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
November 3, 2014, 11:18 am
Inside the mind of mass murderer Adolf Eichmann
German historian Bettina Stangneth’s ‘Eichmann Before Jerusalem’ explores the Final Solution architect’s personal and professional life before his Jerusalem trial
By JP O’ Malley
A young girl in Ecuador holding hands with representatives of HIAS, right, and the refugee agency of the United Nations. (photo credit: Courtesy HIAS/JTA)
July 22, 2013, 6:00 am
HIAS focusing on non-Jews: What would Emma Lazarus say?
Young, Jewish, and feeling ‘myopic’ with Jewish communal work? HIAS’s quest for relevance — and volunteers — has it reaching out to global tired and poor
By Ron Kampeas
A scene from 'Hannah Arendt' (photo credit: courtesy Zeitgeist Films)
May 31, 2013, 8:03 pm
Hannah Arendt gets the smart, nuanced biopic she deserves
Hitting theaters Friday, a new movie shows how unhappy the German-Jewish, New York-based author was to have reached her incendiary conclusions about Eichmann and the ‘banality of evil’
By Jordan Hoffman
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz visiting the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, as he takes part in the 'March of the Living' on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 7, 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
April 8, 2013, 1:13 pm
Remembering, and vowing to protect
Failed cyberattacks and Gazan rockets fill the country’s present, as citizens bow their heads to mourn the past
By Aaron Kalman
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