Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989
Jerusalem: The Future of the Past
By Amos Elon
The rational mind has always had reservations about Jerusalem. In 1930, Sigmund Freud wrote Albert Einstein: 'I can muster no sympathy whatever for the misguided piety that makes a national religion from a piece of the wall of Herod, and for its sake challenges the feelings of the local natives.' Freud was attached to the Jewish world with ties he knew to be indestructible and is even said to have contemplated briefly, in 1922, settling in Palestine. Yet a few years later he told his friend the novelist Arnold Zweig, who had just returned from a visit to Jerusalem:
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