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    <title>Hannah Arendt papers, 1898-1977 (bulk 1948-1977)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Arendt, Hannah</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1906-1975</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches and writings, subject files, family papers, clippings, and other papers primarily concerning Arendt's intellectual, social, and professional life as a lecturer and writer after World War II.  Subjects include the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Jewish response to the Holocaust, totalitarianism in Germany, and Zionism.  Manuscripts of her works include Between Past and Future; Six Exercises in Political Thought (1961), Eichmann in Jerusalem; A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), Men in Dark Times (1968), and The Life of the Mind (1978).  Family papers include correspondence and unpublished writings of her husband, Heinrich Blücher.  Many of the letters and papers are in German and other European languages.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include W.H. Auden, Hanan J. Ayalti (Hanan Klenbort), Saul Bellow, Walter Benjamin, Rosalie Littell Colie, Joachim C. Fest, Carl J. Friedrich, Elke Gilbert, Robert Gilbert, J. Glenn Gray, Waldemar Gurian, Rolf Hochhuth, Randall Jarrell, Hans Jonas, William Jovanovich, Alfred Kazin, Lotte Köhler, Robert Lowell, Mary McCarthy, Dwight MacDonald, Judah Leon Magnes, Hans Joachim Morgenthau, David Riesman, Ruth H. Rosenau, Gershom Gerhard Scholem, William Shawn, Robert Silvers, Stephen Spender, Paul Tillich, Eric Voegelin, Ernst Vollrath, Anne Weil, Helen Wolff, Kurt Wolff, and University of Chicago faculty members.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Selected material also available through the Library of Congress Web site.</note>
  <note>Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Author, educator, and political philosopher.  Born Johanna Cohn Arendt in 1906; married Heinrich Blücher (after moving to the U.S. the couple primarily used the spelling Bluecher) in 1940 and used her married name Hannah Arendt Blücher for domestic identification.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English, French, and German.</note>
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      <namePart>Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1907-1973</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ayalti, Hanan J</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1910-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bellow, Saul</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Benjamin, Walter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Colie, Rosalie Littell</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eichmann, Adolf</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1962</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fest, Joachim C</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1926-2006</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Friedrich, Carl J. (Carl Joachim)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1984</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gilbert, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1978</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gilbert, Elke</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gray, J. Glenn (Jesse Glenn)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1913-1977</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gurian, Waldemar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1954</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hochhuth, Rolf</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jarrell, Randall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1914-1965</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jonas, Hans</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1993</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jovanovich, William</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kazin, Alfred</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1915-1998</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Köhler, Lotte</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lowell, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-1977</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McCarthy, Mary</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1912-1989</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>MacDonald, Dwight</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Magnes, Judah Leon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morgenthau, Hans J. (Hans Joachim)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1980</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Riesman, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-2002</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rosenau, Ruth H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Scholem, Gershom</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1982</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shawn, William</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Silvers, Robert B</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Spender, Stephen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-1995</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tillich, Paul</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1965</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Voegelin, Eric</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1985</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Vollrath, Ernst</namePart>
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      <namePart>Weil, Anne</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wolff, Helen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1994</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wolff, Kurt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1963</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Jews</topic>
    <topic>Persecutions</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>National socialism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Philosophy</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Political science</topic>
    <topic>Philosophy</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Totalitarianism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>War crime trials</topic>
    <geographic>Jerusalem</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Zionism</topic>
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    <geographic>Germany</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1933-1945</temporal>
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    <geographic>Palestine</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1948-</temporal>
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    <occupation>Educators</occupation>
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    <occupation>Philosophers</occupation>
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      <title>Between past and future; six exercises in political thought. 1961</title>
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      <namePart>Blücher, Heinrich,</namePart>
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