Rahel Varnhagen

Growing up in the household of her step-family, HA made the acquaintance of Anna Mendelssohn , later Weil, who became an intimate and lifelong friend. Anna was a descendant of the composer Felix Mendelssohn ...

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl , biographer of Hannah Arendt , points out that this is one of the finest pictures extant of the milieu of the Jewish salon hostess Rahel Varnhagen (of whom Arendt published a biography). (YB 87n5)

HA published through the East and West Library in London, UK, in English, Rahel Varnhagen : The Life of a Jewess, which she had finished writing more than twenty years before.