LC control no. | mm 79011056 |
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Type of material | Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection) |
Personal name | Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. |
Main title | Hannah Arendt papers, 1898-1977 (bulk 1948-1977). |
Related names | Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Between past and future; six exercises in political thought. 1961. Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem; a report on the banality of evil. 1963. Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Men in dark times. 1968. Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Life of the mind. 1978. Blücher, Heinrich, 1899-1970. Heinrich Blücher papers. |
Related titles | Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress. |
Description | 25,000 items. 95 containers plus 1 oversize. 38 linear feet. |
Organized/Arranged | Arranged in 10 series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1898-1975; Series 2: Correspondence, 1938-1976; Series 3: Adolf Eichmann File, 1938-1968; Series 4: Subject File, 1949-1975; Series 5: Speeches and Writings File, 1923-1975; Series 6: Clippings, 1942-1975; Series 7: Addition I, 1966-1977; Series 8: Addition II, 1906-1975; Series 9: Addition III, 1945; and Series 10: Oversize, 1930-1972. |
Access advisory | Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. |
Biography/History note | Author, educator, and political philosopher. Born Johanna Cohn Arendt in 1906; married Heinrich Blücher (after moving to the U.S. the couple primarily used the spelling Bluecher) in 1940 and used her married name Hannah Arendt Blücher for domestic identification. |
Summary | Correspondence, speeches and writings, subject files, family papers, clippings, and other papers primarily concerning Arendt's intellectual, social, and professional life as a lecturer and writer after World War II. Subjects include the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Jewish response to the Holocaust, totalitarianism in Germany, and Zionism. Manuscripts of her works include Between Past and Future; Six Exercises in Political Thought (1961), Eichmann in Jerusalem; A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), Men in Dark Times (1968), and The Life of the Mind (1978). Family papers include correspondence and unpublished writings of her husband, Heinrich Blücher. Many of the letters and papers are in German and other European languages. Correspondents include W.H. Auden, Hanan J. Ayalti (Hanan Klenbort), Saul Bellow, Walter Benjamin, Rosalie Littell Colie, Joachim C. Fest, Carl J. Friedrich, Elke Gilbert, Robert Gilbert, J. Glenn Gray, Waldemar Gurian, Rolf Hochhuth, Randall Jarrell, Hans Jonas, William Jovanovich, Alfred Kazin, Lotte Köhler, Robert Lowell, Mary McCarthy, Dwight MacDonald, Judah Leon Magnes, Hans Joachim Morgenthau, David Riesman, Ruth H. Rosenau, Gershom Gerhard Scholem, William Shawn, Robert Silvers, Stephen Spender, Paul Tillich, Eric Voegelin, Ernst Vollrath, Anne Weil, Helen Wolff, Kurt Wolff, and University of Chicago faculty members. |
Notes | Photographs: transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Collection material in English, French, and German. MSS11056 |
Finding aids | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001004> |
Acquisition source | Gift and bequest, Hannah Arendt, 1964-2000. Gift, Klaus Loewald, 1981. Gift, Roger Errera, 1994. Gift, Jochen Kölsch, International Verbindungen, 2007. |
Additional formats | Selected material also available through the Library of Congress Web site. |
Subjects | Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973--Correspondence. Ayalti, Hanan J., 1910---Correspondence. Bellow, Saul--Correspondence. Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Correspondence. Colie, Rosalie Littell--Correspondence. Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962--Trials, litigation, etc. Fest, Joachim C., 1926-2006--Correspondence. Friedrich, Carl J. (Carl Joachim), 1901-1984--Correspondence. Gilbert, Robert, 1899-1978--Correspondence. Gilbert, Elke--Correspondence. Gray, J. Glenn (Jesse Glenn), 1913-1977--Correspondence. Gurian, Waldemar, 1902-1954--Correspondence. Hochhuth, Rolf--Correspondence. Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965--Correspondence. Jonas, Hans, 1903-1993--Correspondence. Jovanovich, William--Correspondence. Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998--Correspondence. Köhler, Lotte--Correspondence. Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977--Correspondence. McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989--Correspondence. MacDonald, Dwight--Correspondence. Magnes, Judah Leon, 1877-1948--Correspondence. Morgenthau, Hans J. (Hans Joachim), 1904-1980--Correspondence. Riesman, David, 1909-2002--Correspondence. Rosenau, Ruth H.--Correspondence. Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982--Correspondence. Shawn, William--Correspondence. Silvers, Robert B.--Correspondence. Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995--Correspondence. Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965--Correspondence. Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985--Correspondence. Vollrath, Ernst--Correspondence. Weil, Anne--Correspondence. Wolff, Helen, 1906-1994--Correspondence. Wolff, Kurt, 1887-1963--Correspondence. University of Chicago--Faculty--Correspondence. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews--Persecutions. National socialism. Philosophy. Political science--Philosophy. Totalitarianism. War crime trials--Jerusalem. Zionism. Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945. Palestine--Politics and government--1948- Authors. Educators. Philosophers. |
Local shelving no. | 0625N Oversize 6:4 Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,222) Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 23,506) |
Language code | eng fre ger |
Repository | Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home> |
Links | Selected material: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/arendthome.html> Finding aid: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001004> Finding aid (PDF): <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001004.3> |