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A 6 page review of the first part of Hannah Arendt's three volume set. This paper explores Arendt's views on the relationship between historical setting, totalitarianism, and anti-Semitism. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of two of the totalitarian movements which unfolded in the twentieth century. In the first of three volumes Arendt traces the roots of Soviet Communism and Nazism and details
why these movements bred the anti-Semitism that came to characterize them. The first page in Hannah Arendts "The Origins of Totalitarianism" sets the background for what Arendt refers
to as the origin of anti-Semitism. She writes: "Characteristic of these times, when Jewish individuals and the first small wealthy Jewish communities were more powerful than at any
time in the nineteenth century, was the frankness with which their privileged status and their right to it was discussed, and the careful testimony of the authorities to the importance
of their services to the state. There was not the slightest doubt or ambiguity about the connection between services rendered and privileges granted". Such is characteristic not just
of totalitarianism and the anti-Semitism that it would fuel of this time but totalitarianism as it relates to anti-Semitism in general. As was the case for the imbalanced societal
structure which resulted in this instance, totalitarianism is by nature top heavy. The origin of anti-Semitism, therefore, is not that surprising of a development in this scenario. Arendts
arguments and assumptions present anti-Semitism in a different light, however, than that of authors who speculate that the Jews were a ready target for those that wished to place the
blame of the worlds ills on one peoples shoulders. Arendt contends, instead, that the historical setting of the time and that preceding that time is what set the direction
for anti-Semitism. Arendts work joins that of many others that document the rise of anti-Semitism. All agree that anti-Semitism has a deeply
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