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The Outsiders
Gornick, Vivian | April 6, 1998 issue

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The article discusses the book "Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess," by Hannah Arendt. According to the author, the book is a complicated tale representing one of those rare instances in literature where the serendipity of this writer finding this subject is as relevant to the subject and to the story being told as the document itself. In the mid-1920s, a doctoral student in her own 20s, Arendt stumbled on letters of Varnhagen and a memoir left by her husband in archives of the Berlin State Library. Those materials absorbed her and she began to write a kind of biography of the woman who, as she was later to say, became her dearest friend even though she had been dead a hundred years.

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RAHEL Varnhagen (Book); ARENDT, Hannah, 1906-1975; BIOGRAPHY; JEWS; LETTERS; VARNHAGEN, Rahel
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