In a collection of essays for American readers written over the past two decades, a well-known political commentator in the Israeli press ranges across the whole terrain of Israeli life and history, from Zionism to the meaning of the Holocaust. 10,000 first printing.
Avishai Margalit (Hebrew: אבישי מרגלית, b. 1939 in Afula, British Mandate for Palestine – today Israel) is an Israeli professor emeritus in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.