Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction Hannah Arendt, Judaism, and Gender Identity Politics and Multiculturalism Assimilation and Gender Race and Gender The Context of Feminist Theory Structure and Organization of the Book Chapter 2 The Politics of the Eichmann Controversy Arendt and Eichmann in Jerusalem The Controversy Chapter 3 Israel and the Holocaust The Dawning of Reality The Structure of Discomfort Attempts at Rescue Israeli Attitudes Toward the Holocaust Victims Postwar Negotiations with Germany The "Kastner Trial" The Trial of Adolf Eichmann Chapter 4 The New York Intellectuals and Eichmann in Jerusalem The New York Intellectuals and Judaism The New York Intellectuals and the Holocaust Postwar Politics and the New Yorkers The New York Intellectuals and Hannah Arendt Chapter 5 Race, Gender and Judaism: The Eichmann Controversy as Case Study Nazis and Sexuality Racism, Sexism, and Jewish Masculinity Assimilation as Gendered: The Partisan Review Crowd Revisited Jewish Women The Eichmann Controversy, Gender, and Judaism Chapter 6 Transition Thinking about Eichmann The Political Consequences of Thinking Arendt as Jewish Gadfly Chapter 7 Biblical and Rabbinic Approaches to Thinking Thinking Like a Jew The Bible Talmud Midrash The Middle Ages Mysticism Jewish Historical Consciousness Chapter 8 Greek and Hebrew: The Structure of Thinking The Structure of Hebrew Thought Compared to Greek Rabbinic Thought Scaffolding Chapter 9 Toward Understanding Arendt as a Jewish Thinker A Jewish Soul in a German Scholar The Political Trouble with Philosophy Warm-Up Exercise: An Impressionistic Reading of "Truth and Politics" Chapter 10 The Pariah and Parvenu in Thinking Seeing and Hearing Classical and Jewish Orthodoxy Socrates as Pariah The Wordly Results of Thinking Chapter 11 Jewish Themes in Political Action and History Judaism and the Space for Political Action Judaism and Arendt''s Concept of History Community in Dark Times Chapter 12 Conclusion Judaism Gender Appendix Reviews of Raul Hilberg''s The Destruction of the European Jews Notes Selected Bibliography Index.