Desclee de Brouwer (
1998)
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Abstract
Traces Arendt's views on the Jewish experience as expressed in her work, including the phenomenon of antisemitism. Discusses emancipation, the antisemitism of the 19th-20th centuries, the Nazi regime, the "Judenräte", the Zionist movement, and the foundation of the Jewish State. States that according to Arendt the monstrosity of the Nazis' actions consisted in the fact that they exceeded all pre-existing juridical categories. The annihilation of the Jewish people must be seen as a crime against its totality, its "body", as a collective experience. No punishment is appropriate, because of the enormity of the crime.