The Gessen affair and Germany’s ignorance about Jews
By criticising the journalist Masha Gessen, Germany misunderstands one of its greatest thinkers, Hannah Arendt.
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Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman is director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. Her most recent book is Left is not Woke (Polity).
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The universalist tradition has been forgotten, the Enlightenment betrayed
The Hamas attack has devastated progressive Jews who are not prepared to celebrate the carnage as an act of…
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