Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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Page 104
... Jewish opinion . Keeping American Jewry sympathetic to the British cause was not easy . In Palestine , Jewish underground groups , with the exception of the Stern gang , ceased their campaigns against the British , and the British ...
... Jewish opinion . Keeping American Jewry sympathetic to the British cause was not easy . In Palestine , Jewish underground groups , with the exception of the Stern gang , ceased their campaigns against the British , and the British ...
Page 117
... Jewish brigade to fight on the Allied side , because Jews were hopeless fighters ; on the other , they must not be ... Jewish agitation in Palestine and the Jewish lobby in America . The embassy in Cairo reported Arab concerns about ...
... Jewish brigade to fight on the Allied side , because Jews were hopeless fighters ; on the other , they must not be ... Jewish agitation in Palestine and the Jewish lobby in America . The embassy in Cairo reported Arab concerns about ...
Page 184
... Jewish belonging but for Jewish freedom . Berlin denied that there had to be only one way to live a Jewish life . Religious Jews believed that the preservation of Judaism as a faith was an ' absolute obligation ' , to which everything ...
... Jewish belonging but for Jewish freedom . Berlin denied that there had to be only one way to live a Jewish life . Religious Jews believed that the preservation of Judaism as a faith was an ' absolute obligation ' , to which everything ...
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