Description
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.
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: Verso
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781786630827
ISBN10: 1786630826
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Judaism | General
- Political Science | Essays
- Social Science | Jewish Studies
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher: Verso
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781786630827
ISBN10: 1786630826
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Judaism | General
- Political Science | Essays
- Social Science | Jewish Studies
About the Author
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."