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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

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2015-06-30 • 2h 8m

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The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.

Directors
Ada Ushpiz
Writters
Ada Ushpiz
Editors
Ada Ushpiz, Hadas Ayalon

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  1. Alison Darcy

    Alison Darcy

    Hannah Arendt (voice)

  2. Richard Bernstein

    Richard Bernstein

    Self - Arendt's Friend

  3. Jerome Kohn

    Jerome Kohn

    Self - Arendt's Assistant

  4. Steven Asheim

    Steven Asheim

    Self - Professor

  5. Aharon Appelfeld

    Aharon Appelfeld

    Self - Writer

  6. Leon Botstein

    Leon Botstein

    Self - Arendt's Student

  7. Idith Zertal

    Idith Zertal

    Self - Historian

  8. Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Self - Iranian Dissident

  9. Gertrude Heidegger

    Gertrude Heidegger

    Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter

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Status
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
holocaust (shoah)jew persecutionnuremberg trialsbiographyholocaust (shoah) survivorwoman directoradolf eichmann's trialphilosophereuropean historyfemale writernazi war criminal