hannah arendt wondered what it meant to her to be jewish, especially in germany. arendt's account of life. rahel farnhagen was interpreted and interpreted by many people as arendt's personal biography. writing this book was an excuse for arendt to find her jewish identity. that too, in the period when anti-semitism once again threatened german jews . arendt didn't just write a biography. he was stuck between two identities, jewish or german. this was a very difficult time for arendt. because he was against many positions of the zionists, but his heart wanted to do something for the jewish people. until he was arrested and interrogated for 8 days and finally decided to leave germany with his mother. hannah arendt was one of the participants in eichmann's trial who wanted to narrate what she saw and heard with her pen slow down at the beginning of the book, the author of the book eichmann in jerusalem considers the judges and prosecutors to be the representatives and voices of david bengurion, the prime minister of the zionist regime, and in the final pages of the bo