Great essay by Daniel Solomon on many aspects of Tony Judts life, but this part particularly resonated with me. For Judt, the question of Israel was an important tangent of the historian’s own provincial Jewishness. The memory of the Holocaust was a force for political cosmopolitanism in itself; the eventual myopia of contemporary Zionism was the conviction that this memory could only be enshrined through an exclusionary nation-state. This was the central observation of Judt’s defense of the one-state solution in 2003; it was also a logical finding of Judt’s fragmented three-decade history of the European public commons. dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/between-israel-and-social-democracy-tony-judts-jewishness
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:36:09 +0000
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