5 days ago
- General
- Wall Street Journal
Antisemitism and the Politics of the Chant
'My German quality and my Jewish quality do not get in the way of each other, but do each other a lot of good. . . . I experience this strange and intimate duality in unity as something precious.'
This is the voice of Gustav Landauer, socialist, pacifist, believer in 'the unity of humanity,' disciple of Martin Buber, translator of Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, grandfather of Mike Nichols, and a philosopher murdered by the fascist Freikorps in 1919.