The Non-Jewish Jew

And Other Essays

Isaac Deutscher, Tamara Deutscher

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English

Bloomsbury
26 April 2017

Religion & beliefs; Jewish studies; Politics & government

Series: Radical Thinkers

Isaac Deutscher is widely recognized as one of the foremost political biographers of the twentieth century, and his full-scale studies of Trotsky and Stalin, translated into many world languages, have played a major role in elucidating the character and fate of the Russian Revolution.

He died on 19 August 1967, at the height of his powers. From his papers his widow, Tamara Deutscher, selected and edited a group of essays and articles with a special unity of theme: the place of the Jew in the modern world. In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with calmness and clear-sightedness; as a historian he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew he writes without religious belief, but with generous breadth of understanding. As a philosopher he writes first of some of the great Jews of Europe: Spinoza, Heine, Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Freud. He explores the Jewish imagination through the painter Chagall. He writes of the Jews under Stalin and of the `remnants of a race' after Hitler; of the Zionist ideal, of the establishment of the State of Israel, of the war of June 1967, and of the perils ahead.

By: Isaac Deutscher
Edited by: Tamara Deutscher
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 203g
ISBN: 9781786630827
ISBN 10: 1786630826
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 26 April 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Isaac Deutscher was born in 1907 near Krakow and joined the Polish Communist Party, from which he was expelled in1932. He then moved to London where he died in 1967. His books include Stalin and The Unfinished Revolution, and the three-part biography of Trotsky, hailed by Graham Greene as 'among the greatest biographies in the English language.