Category Archives: Leon Wieseltier

Leon Wieseltier Is Not A Fan Of German Intellectual Thilo Sarrazin

Leon Wieseltier writes in The New Republic Nov. 9, 2010: “Over a perfectly prepared bowl of cholent, the coarse stew to which all Galicianer souls are superstitiously attached, I sat in the kosher restaurant in Munich last week, on the … Continue reading

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Second thoughts on this petition to take down Syria’s regime?

I email Professor Jonathan Sarna about this petition he signed in 2013 along with Leon Wieseltier, Joseph Telushkin, Shmuly Yanklowitz, Avi Weiss, Yosef Blau, David Wolpe, Eric Yoffie, Menachem Genack, Steven Weil, Haskel Lookstein, Mark Dratch, Jeffrey K. Salkin to … Continue reading

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Leon Wieseltier Profile

Lloyd Grove wrote for the March 1995 edition of Vanity Fair: New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier is the egghead boy toy of such glamorous powers as Barbara Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, and Tipper Gore. But has he abandoned the life … Continue reading

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