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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... father's call to his son to renew the connection to the family's Riga past , to the Berlins , Volschonoks and Schneersons , the rabbis , scholars and merchant princes of Jewish Russia . I asked whether Isaiah was aware of his father's ...
... father's call to his son to renew the connection to the family's Riga past , to the Berlins , Volschonoks and Schneersons , the rabbis , scholars and merchant princes of Jewish Russia . I asked whether Isaiah was aware of his father's ...
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... father taxed him gently in the memoir for not knowing his Talmud , Isaiah shot back , ' He didn't , either . ' Jewishness may be a central fact about Berlin , but he fashioned the kind of Jew he was and resented his father's desire to ...
... father taxed him gently in the memoir for not knowing his Talmud , Isaiah shot back , ' He didn't , either . ' Jewishness may be a central fact about Berlin , but he fashioned the kind of Jew he was and resented his father's desire to ...
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... father was unlikely to recover . Isaiah had always believed that truth entailed certain obligations and that a dying man was entitled to know the reality of his situation . But now face to face with his own father , he found it ...
... father was unlikely to recover . Isaiah had always believed that truth entailed certain obligations and that a dying man was entitled to know the reality of his situation . But now face to face with his own father , he found it ...
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