This year’s New York Jewish Film Festival, starting January 9, is heavy on the Holocaust. Two films, however, stand out in conversation with one another. “Hannah Arendt,” directed by Margarethe von ...

A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt Teresa Candeias reads Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem. In May 1960, ...

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Can a filmmaker make a biopic with a book as its protagonist? Margarethe Von Trotta’s film, Hanna Arendt, is a film with a limited scope, following Arendt during the publication of her book Eichmann ...

As head of the Gestapo office for Jewish affairs, Adolf Eichmann organized transport systems which resulted in the deportation of millions of Jews to extermination camps across Nazi-occupied Eastern ...

Maria Bussmann, “Drawing on Hannah Arendt (Buttons)” (2012). Pencil on paper, 50 x 70 cm. (Click to enlarge.) All photos by the author for Hyperallergic. Maria Bussmann is an artist whose work is ...

Hannah Arendt published eichmann in jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil in 1963. Over the next two decades alone, it would be republished some 30 times, first in the United States and then ...

In 1963, writing her first seminal dispatch from the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt observed that whoever built the Israeli Palace of Justice “obviously had a theater in mind.” The space ...

On Wednesday, Deborah Lipstadt wrote about eerie anniversaries. She is the author of the new book “The Eichmann Trial.” Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the ...

IRVINE, Mark Nedelman: Though I very much enjoyed reading Timothy Spangler’s article, “The banality of evil,” I must respectfully disagree with his understanding of the phrase [Opinion, Feb. 2]. An ...

Few political thinkers have left behind a quote as unsettling as this one. At first glance, it appears simple.