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November 11, 2015

Remembering the Historian Who Helped Shatter the Eichmann Myth

Evil, but not so banal.

David Cesarani, a recently deceased historian of the Holocaust and of British Jewry, was among the first to demonstrate, on the basis of the documentary record, the falsity of Hannah Arendt’s depiction of Adolf Eichmann as a “banal” and faceless bureaucrat without ideological investment in Nazism. Jeffrey Herf explains:

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November 11, 2015

  1. Can Netanyahu’s Visit Lead to Improved U.S.-Israel Relations?

    At best, less daylight.

  2. The EU’s New Labeling Policy Enables Boycotts of Israel

    Made in the West Bank.

  3. Why the Sinai Crisis Bodes Ill for Sisi

    What stability?

  4. Remembering the Historian Who Helped Shatter the Eichmann Myth

    Evil, but not so banal.

  5. Vladimir Putin and His Jews

    The Russian president isn’t anti-Semitic . . . yet.