HLPC Cultural Medallion: Hannah Arendt, December 16, 2022

Installment of a cultural medallion honoring Hannah Arendt on December 16, 2022. The program, Hannah Arendt: Authoritarianism, Activism & AntiSemitism, was led by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Founder and Chair of Historic Landmarks Preservation Center; Founder and Chair, Diamonstein-Spielvogel Institute for NYC History, Politics and Community Activism. Participants in the program include:
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College;
Jana Schmidt, Director of Academic Programs, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, Bard College;
David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University;
Suzanne Nossel, Chief Executive Officer, PEN America;
Yascha Mounk, Senior Research Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC; Michael Waldman, President and CEO, Brennan Center for Justice since 2005.
Hannah Arendt
14 October 1906 - 4 December 1975
370 Riverside Drive, Manhattan
A humanist writer and philosopher whose guiding principle was "To Think What We Are Doing," Hannah Arendt thought boldly about our shared political world. Born in Hanover, Germany in 1906, Arendt studied under Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. Arrested by the Nazis for her work with German Zionists in 1933, she fled to Paris, and then escaped from a detention camp in Gurs in France. She arrived in New York in 1941, a stateless Jewish refugee. Arendt's major books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1957) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), which redefined our understanding of the Holocaust, three of the most influential books of the 20th century. She also published Between Past and Future, Men in Dark Times, Crises of the Republic, and On Revolution. She lived at this address from 1959 to 1975, and is buried in the Bard College Cemetery.
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