The Origins of Antisemitism
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In 1944, when Hannah Arendt sat down to compose the notes for what would become The Origins of Totalitarianism, not two years had passed since news of the Nazi death camps had reached America. American troops were on their way to the beaches of Normandy to sledgehammer into Europe, but the streets of Paris were still under German control. After moving to Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 1941, Arendt had begun working for a German-Jewish weekly called Aufbau, for which she wrote many of the
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