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A Light Unto the Nations?

- Abstract

Dear B, In the absence of a letter from you I am reading those of the “father of Zionist socialism,” Moses Hess–the ones that make up his 1862 book Rome and Jerusalem.



About the Author

Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz professor of Yiddish and professor of comparative literature at Harvard. She is the author most recently of Jews and Power (Nextbook/Schocken).