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Too “Retro”—Or A Model Of Jewish Activism?

By Daniel Eisenstadt, on November 19th, 2012

Sigal Samuel’s suggestion that Natan Sharansky and Eli Wiesel are “too retro” because they are “from the age of concentration camps and gulags,” and that their “battles…don’t resonate” with a younger generation strikes me as a profoundly sad misunderstanding of the lessons to be learned from Jewish history.

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