Hannah Arendt , the Holocaust and Zionism : A storyof Failure Elhanan Yakira thinking of Hannah Arendt , nowadays almost universally acknowledged as the most important political thinkersof the twentieth century , was determined arge degree by her Jewish experience . But it is only lately that her work begins acquire some presence in Israeli intellectual life , more often than not , in a very , sometimes almost hagiographic way . However , the synthesis between ' political theory and the more particularistic Jewish concerns has not been very successful in Arendt ' s work ; as a matter of fact , its real outcome failure - an intellectual and moral failure . Despite the great interestof Arendt ' s work , it also has some known flaws . One , less discussed than the others , is a certain lack of compassion that runs h her entire theoretical work . It becomes fully apparent in her book on the trial , where she practically ignores the Holocaust survivors' testimonies at the court in Jerusalem...
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