(JTA) –- The mayor of a district of Budapest unveiled a bust of the Jewish-American philosopher Hannah Arendt at an event commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Laszlo Hajdu, mayor of Budapest’s 15th District and a politician for the Democratic Coalition, a left-wing opposition party, unveiled the bust on Thursday at a ceremony attended by U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell, the Magyar Nemzet daily reported.
A Jewish intellectual who fled Nazi Germany, Arendt arrived in America in 1941 and became well-known for her coverage for the New Yorker of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann …read more
Source: JTA
