The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9781786630827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str.

Isaac Deutscher

Opis

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."

Recenzje

"Deutscher is an exceedingly vivid writer with a sense of style."
- Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967) was born near Kraków and joined the Polish Communist Party, from which he was expelled in 1932. His books include Stalin and the Unfinished Revolution and a three-part biography of Trotsky hailed by Graham Greene as "among the greatest biographies in the English language."