Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is honored in a Lithuania still grappling with the Nazi era The opening in Kaunas of a cultural center named for a famous Jew coincided with rows over how to talk about his family’s killers.
Dutch national laureate philosopher calls Diaspora a ‘blessing’ because it prevented Jews from having power “And one sees how it can go wrong if that power does exist, in the State of Israel,” Hans Achterhuis said in an interview published on Israel’s national Holocaust memorial day.
A famed French-Jewish philosopher is afraid to leave his home Alain Finkielkraut’s support for Israel and opposition to political Islam have made him a target for street thuggery.