Book Reading/Discussion: Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. As their recently translated letters reveal, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of correspondence.

On the occasion of the publication of The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem (University of Chicago Press, 2017, translated by Anthony David), actors will perform a dramatic reading of a selection of the searing and brilliant letters in which Arendt and Scholem debate the responsibility of Jewish intellectuals writing about the Holocaust. The post-reading discussion will also feature Marie Luise Knott from Berlin in conversation with Professor Roger Berkowitz. The staged reading is directed by Jonathan Rosenberg, Artist-in-Residence at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.

From Goethe Institut New York. The event is $12 for general admission and $5 for students.