German Foundation Withdraws From Awarding Jewish Journalist Hannah Arendt Prize Over New Yorker Essay
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The Heinrich Böll Foundation, aligned with Germany’s Green Party, has abruptly withdrawn from awarding the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought to Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen. The foundation’s decision, made in concert with the Bremen Senate, stems from Gessen’s recent New Yorker essay, titled In the Shadow of the Holocaust. Gessen’s piece, published on […]
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