In 1984, editing the late eminent philosopher of science Adolf Grünbaum, whose The Foundations of Psychoanalysis we were publishing at the University of California Press, I was taken aback one day at the vehemence of Adolf's defense of Philip Roth against the charge that he was a “self-hating Jew.” Grünbaum—born in Germany in 1923, emigrating with his family to the United States in 1938—had vivid and contemptuous recollections of how the Nazis had used the charge of “self-hating German” against any German who dared to challenge them. An uncompromising rationalist and universalist, Adolf would not stoop to changing his first name (“Why should I?”) simply because a vile dictator happened to bear it as well. In the same vein, he happily retained the umlaut in his last name. While not yet twenty years of age, he became one of the “Ritchie Boys,” German-speaking Americans, many of them Jews, who served...
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May 01 2022
Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel
Mustafa Akyol,
Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
(New York
: St. Martin's Essentials
, 2021
), 308
pp.Omri Boehm,
Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel
(New York
: New York Review Books
, 2021
), 186
pp.
Jack Miles
Jack Miles, a former MacArthur Fellow and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine, received the Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography. His other books include God in the Qur'an; Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God; and Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story. He is general editor of the 4,000-page Norton Anthology of World Religions.
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 287–290.
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Jack Miles; Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel. Common Knowledge 1 May 2022; 28 (2): 287–290. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9809263
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