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Masha Gessen will receive Hannah Arendt Prize, following controversy over Gaza essay

Gessen, a Jewish writer for The New Yorker magazine, published an essay last week comparing the Gaza Strip to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos, sparking backlash from Jewish and pro-Israel activists.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Russia-born U.S. journalist Masha Gessen (front C) takes part in a protest against a proposed new law termed by the State Duma as "against advocating the rejection of traditional family values" in central Moscow June 11, 2013.
Hannah Arendt conducts a seminar at The New School in Manhattan, Feb. 19, 1969.

Follow in Hannah Arendt’s footsteps on this New York walking tour

Hannah Arendt biographer Samantha Rose Hill devised a walking tour of Arendt’s Upper West Side, from the shabby first apartment to that comfortable decorated apartment 12A.

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
A scene from 'Operation Finale' starring Ben Kingsley as Adolf Eichmann

New Eichmann film puts the lie to Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’

It was not necessary for Hannah Arendt to actually observe and listen to Eichmann because to do so would undercut her thesis.

|ByALAN DERSHOWITZ
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Hannah Arendt, white supremacist

It’s time to admit that through Arendt’s writing runs a thread of European white supremacy.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN