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The Tikvah Podcast·Episode 409·May 16, 2025

J.J. Kimche on Paul Johnson’s Legacy of Philo-Semitism

Born in 1928 in Manchester, Paul Johnson was a British Catholic who while at the helm of the New Statesman liked to boast that he had met every British prime minister from Churchill to Blair and every American president from Eisenhower to George W. Bush—the latter of whom awarded Paul Johnson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006.

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