Explain in what way the plight of the Jews in the 19th and the 20th century is paradigmatic, in Hannah Arendt‘s view, for the political condition of modern human beings.
More precisely, explain in what sense the situation of the Jews in the 19th and the 20th century, as reflected, for example by the Jewish Question, but also by the socio-economic position that the Jews occupied in many European countries, helps one understand what went wrong, in Arendt‘s view, with European modern politics, thus contributing to the crystallization of the unprecedented phenomenon of totalitarianism.
