Gideon Levy remembers Amos Elon at NYU 18 Nov 2009

As long as there has been Jewish dissent and criticism of internal authority there has been the label of “self-hating Jew.” One of the most famous Jewish dissenters, Baruch Spinoza, was excommunicated from his community when he challenged the authority and control of his contemporary Jewish leaders. The leaders of the Jewish Enlightenment, Haskalah, were