Lotte Kohler correspondence with Elzbieta Ettinger

Lotte Kohler is a trustee of the Hannah Arendt Literary Trust. She was a professor at City College, New York, and editor of “Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, 1937-1968” and editor, with Hans Saner of “Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers: Correspondece, 1926-1969”

Elzbieta Ettinger served as professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies from 1975 to 1996, where she was named Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and Literature. Ettinger earned a Ph.D. in American literature from Warsaw University in 1966; she moved to Cambridge Massachusetts in 1967 and became a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute. Her publications included the novels “Kindergarten” (1968), describing her experiences during World War II in her native Warsaw, Poland, “Quicksand” (1989), and the biographies “Rosa Luxemburg, A Life” (1987), and the 1994 biography “Hannah Arendt-Martin Heidegger”. The MIT News Office obituary of Elzbieta Ettinger can be found at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/ettinger-obit.html