Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Controversial and Influential Work
Hanna Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem is a highly controversial and influential work that assesses the role of the Jewish ghetto leaders (the judenrate) in the destruction of their own people during the Holocaust. Arendt’s analysis of the Eichmann trial and her evaluation of the judenrate has been both praised and criticized by historians and thinkers alike.