Jews and Power, Revisited
Understanding the Jewish political paradox in 2024.
March 15, 2024
Jews and Power, Revisited
Understanding the Jewish political paradox in 2024.
In this conversation, sponsored by Mosaic and our friends at Beit Avi Chai, Ruth R. Wisse speaks with the Israeli journalist Moav Vardi about her 2007 book Jews and Power. The book explains the political strategies Jews developed during their centuries of diasporic powerlessness, their rediscovery of political nationhood in 1948, and the moral confusion of those who have trouble accepting that rediscovery. Here she addresses, among other topics, the functions of anti-Semitism, Israel’s current predicament, how to defend the Jewish state, and the “moral solipsism” that has poisoned so many Jews today. (Video, 1 hour.)
March 15, 2024
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