Sunday, April 14, 2019

How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism - The New York Times

How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism - The New York Times: In “The Lions’ Den,” Susie Linfield tours the minds of eight thinkers, including Hannah Arendt and Noam Chomsky, investigating their relationship to the Jewish state.
Reviewed by J.J. Goldberg
"“The Lions’ Den” illustrates the individual struggles of Jewish leftists in the World War II generation to reconcile their conflicting impulses, the particularist pull of Zionism and the universalist pull of socialism. Their stories precisely anticipate the tension today’s Jewish liberals experience trying to reconcile their own pro-Israel particularism and their social-justice universalism."

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