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The non-Jewish Jew and other essays

By Isaac Deutscher

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2017
ISBN
9781786630834, 1786630834, 9781786630841, 1786630842
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
173 kB (177505 bytes)
Series
Radical thinkers
Pages
0\0
Time added
2017-10-15 07:22:48
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers;Socialism

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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 calmness and clear-sightedness; as a historian he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew he writes without religious belief, but with a generous breadth of understanding. As a philosopher he writes first of some of the great Jews of Europe: Spinoza, Heine, Marx, Trotsky, Rosa 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; of the Zionist ideal, of the establishment of the state of Israel, of the war of June 1967, and of the perils ahead. From the Trade Paperback edition.  Read more...

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