But distortion may be the inevitable consequence of celebrity: Interest in Arendt, who died in 1975 at the age of 69, is ...

(JTA) – The writer Masha Gessen will still receive a prestigious award named for Hannah Arendt ... the award named for Arendt, a 20th-century German Jewish thinker and author.

Hannah Arendt was a political thinker who understood fascism better than many. She was right there, eye-to-eye with the beast. Arendt was born near Hanover, Germany, in 1906. Her family was ...