Hannah Arendt described this woman as “my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years” in a biography for her subtitled “The Life of a Jewess.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this German Jewish intellectual whose A Book of Memories for Her Friends was only published after her death.
ANSWER: Rahel Varnhagen [or Rahel Levin Varnhagen or Rahel Antonie Friederike Levin]
[10m] Varnhagen was known for hosting these events in Berlin, where they were often hosted by Jews like Henriette Herz. Women who participated in these events were derisively referred to as “bluestockings.”
ANSWER: salons
[10e] Varnhagen was outspoken in criticizing antisemitic mobs in this kingdom, which attacked Jews in the 1819 Hep-Hep Riots. Following this kingdom’s Jewish emancipation, many Jews moved to its capital of Munich.
ANSWER: Bavaria [or Bayern]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European History>