The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays

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Essays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with a calm clear-sightedness. As a historian he writes without religious belief, but with a generous breadth of understanding; as a philosopher he writes of some of the great Jews of Europe: Spinoza, Heine, Marx, Trotsky, Luxemburg, and Freud. He explores the Jewish imagination through the painter Chagall. He writes of the Jews under Stalin and of the “remnants of a race“ after Hitler, as well as of the Zionist ideal, of the establishment of the state of Israel, of the Six-Day War, and of the perils ahead. Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Editor’s Note Isaac Deutscher 1907–1967 Introduction: The Education of a Jewish Child I. The non-Jewish Jew II. Who is a Jew? III. The Russian Revolution and the Jewish Problem IV. Remnants of a Race V. Israel’s Spiritual Climate VI. Israel’s Tenth Birthday VII. The Israeli-Arab War, June 1967 VIII. Marc Chagall and the Jewish Imagination IX. The Jewish Tragedy and the Historian