Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-420) and index.

Introduction : Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem / Steven Aschheim -- Hannah Arendt on tradition and new beginnings / Agnes Heller -- Hannah Arendt on revolution / Albrecht Wellmer -- The Arendt cult : Hannah Arendt as political commentator / Walter Laqueur -- Theodicy in Jeruslaem / Susan Neiman -- Arendt and The Origins of totalitarianism : an anglocentric view / Bernard Crick -- Hannah Arendt on the totalitarian sublime and its promise of freedom / Michael Halberstam -- Totalitarian, modernity, and the tradition / Dana R. Villa -- In search of the mother tongue : Hannah Arendt's German-Jewish literature / Liliane Weissberg -- Binationalism and Jewish identity : Hannah Arendt and the question of Palestine / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin -- Hannah Arendt, the early "post-Zionist" / Moshe Zimmermann -- Hannah Arendt's Zionism? / Richard J. Bernstein -- Eichamnn in Jerusalem : justice and history / Michael R. Marrus -- Malicious clerks : the Nazi security police and the banality of evil / Yaacow Lozowick -- Hannah Arendt's interpretation of the Holocaust as a challenge to human existence : the intellectual background / Hans Mommsen -- Between justice and politics : the competition of storytellers in the Eichmann trial / Leora Bilsky -- A generation's response to Eichmann in Jerusalem / Richard I. Cohen -- Love and Bildung for Hannah Arendt / Gabriel Motzkin -- German as pariah, Jew as pariah : Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers / Anson Rabinbach -- The grammar of prudence : Arendt, Jaspers, and the appraisal of Max Weber / Peter Baehr -- Apologist or critic? On Arendt's relation to Heidegger / Dana R. Villa -- Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger : history and metahistory / Annette Vowinckel.