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Meir Kahane, American Radical?
Can the story of a radical thinker and controversial politician shed light on the Jewish experience in the US and, later, in Israel?
Yehuda Kurtzer chats with Hartman senior fellow Shaul Magid (Dartmouth College) about his new book “Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical” which offers an intellectual history of American Judaism and its political challenges – liberalism, race, communism, Zionism, radicalism – the poles through which American Jews have traveled in the past 60 years. Can the story of a radical thinker and controversial politician shed light on the Jewish experience in the US and, later, in Israel?
Meir Kahane debating Yitz Greenberg.
Meir Kahane debating Alan Dershowitz.
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