Growing up in the household of her step-family, HA
made the acquaintance of Anna Mendelssohn
, later Weil, who became an intimate and lifelong friend. Anna was a descendant of the composer Felix Mendelssohn
...
Textual Features
Sybille Bedford
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
, biographer of Hannah Arendt
, points out that this is one of the finest pictures extant of the milieu of the Jewish salon hostess Rahel Varnhagen
(of whom Arendt published a biography).
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press.
87n5
(YB 87n5)
Textual Production
Hannah Arendt
HA
published through the East and West Library
in London, UK, in English, Rahel Varnhagen
: The Life of a Jewess, which she had finished writing more than twenty years before.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Yale University Press.
