Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:15

Hannah Arendt Virtual Discussion Slated For May 18

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Jewish Community Arts presents a Zoom panel discussion of the 2013 film Hannah Arendt, by Margarethe von Trotta, at 7 p.m. on May 18. 

Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe the ordinariness of the Holocaust’s perpetrators; a thinker and writer, often referred to as a philosopher, considered herself a political theorist. She was struck by the danger of thoughtlessness and spent her life thinking about thinking.

The German-born Jewish American intellectual and Jewish activist covered the infamous Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem for The New Yorker magazine in 1961. 

“Arendt’s articles and her later book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, across the years became something to defend or condemn,” said Phyllis Wang, Coordinator of SJCA. “Her work unleashed a civil war amongst intellectuals. She was cursed as a self-hating Jew, a Nazi lover, and damaged her friendships.”

Trotta’s film has been praised for portraying thinking on-screen in a manner that is not boring. Hannah Arendt herself remains controversial even today.

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