Volume 52, Number 14 · September 22, 2005
The Jewish Question
By Adam Shatz
The Jewish Prison: A Rebellious Meditation on the State of Judaism
by Jean Daniel, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Melville House, 214 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Jean Daniel, who turned eighty-five in early July, has a strong claim to being France's most eminent journalist. The editorial director of Le Nouvel Observateur, the center-left weekly he founded in 1964, Daniel has played a role in French political society that has no equivalent in American letters, with the possible exception of Walter Lippmann. He has not only reported on some of the major conflicts of his time—the French-Algerian war, the Congo, the cold war, the question of Israel-Palestine—he has earned the trust and respect of statesmen from Pierre Mendès-France and François Mitterrand to David Ben-Gurion and Ahmed Ben Bella, without sacrificing his independence as a commentator.
Review, 6281 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |