About two weeks ago the Haaretz English edition published an extraordinary interview with a world-class Israeli philosopher, Avishai Margalit. I found myself so moved by it that I decided it was a must-share. One of its several delights is that it contains numerous surprises from beginning to end.

A necessary correction: For reasons beyond my understanding the printed version that I am sending you with the link below omits a one-sentence paragraph about Irving Howe, a towering figure in both American and Jewish-American intellectual life in the post-WWII period, which belongs between the bottom of Page 12 and the top of Page 13. While one can understand the paragraphs that follow without it, a better understanding occurs with it. Here, then is the missing paragraph:

At the end of the meeting, the literary critic and Dissent co-founder Irving Howe approached him.