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Non-Jewish Jew and Other Essays
Author(s): Isaac Deutscher (Author), Tamara Deutscher
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 1968
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 0192111892
- ISBN-13: 9780192111890
Book Description
Isaac Deutscher died on 19 August 1967, at the height of his powers. From his papers his widow has selected and edited a group of essays and articles with a special unity of theme: the place of the Jew in the modern world. 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 generous breadth of understanding. As a philosopher he writes first of some 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.
