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“... and ‘an argument for liberal Zionism’. In a panegyric in the New York Times Book Review, Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of the New Republic, described it as ‘a Zionist book unblinkered by Zionism’. Opinion polls suggest that most American Jews identify themselves as liberals and Democrats and feel affection for Israel. Many dislike the ...”

“... At Bellow’s gravesite, it was Saul’s biological sons v. the anointed sons (Martin Amis, Leon Wieseltier et al). Here it was Team David and Team Annie giving each other the freeze. The funeral itself, which had taken place a few months earlier in Paris, with Sontag being buried at Montparnasse in the same hallowed earth as Sartre, Barthes and ...”

“... into a rare and uncharacteristic expression of dislike’. That’s good, and good to know. (Leon Wieseltier, in his gushing goodbye to Berlin last year in the New Republic, could not have been more wrong than in depicting him as a medieval Jewish sage.) There are probably two additional and reinforcing reasons for Berlin’s disdain. One is that ...”