Abstract
I hate responsibility.
—Berlin to Elizabeth Bowen, no date, probably July 1937
The thirties was a decade in which Berlin, already enjoying small celebrity thanks to his appointment to All Souls, underwent a remarkable change. First, this was a decade marked by slow, gradual, yet consistent politicization. This was a twofold politicization, marked by the discovery of non-Marxist socialism on the one hand, and political Zionism on the other. By the outbreak of World War II Berlin had become a pink liberal and a Weizmannite Zionist.
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© 2012 Arie M. Dubnov
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Dubnov, A.M. (2012). Mr. Jericho’s Piercing Eyes. In: Isaiah Berlin. Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137015723_5
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