{"id":62766,"date":"2015-02-03T14:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62766"},"modified":"2015-02-03T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:43:20","slug":"two-hundred-years-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62766","title":{"rendered":"Two Hundred Years Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian C. Anderson writes about the new biography<\/a>: Mahoney devotes a chapter to defending Solzhenitsyn\u2019s two-volume history of the relations between Russians and Jews, Two Hundred Years Together, from the accusations of anti-Semitism that some have made against it. The main basis of those charges is Solzhenitsyn\u2019s willingness to discuss\u2014and detail\u2014the \u201cdisproportionate\u201d presence of Jews in the early Leninist state\u2019s repression machine. Yet the critics \u201cnever really challenge the accuracy of the facts to which Solzhenitsyn draws our attention,\u201d Mahoney observes, which the refuznik Natan Sharansky has pointed out as well. And Solzhenitsyn never blames Jews for the Bolshevik takeover: a tiny Jewish minority could never drag the massive Russian nation into the Communist underworld, he recognizes. Moreover, adds Mahoney, Solzhenitsyn\u2019s study acknowledges the uniqueness of the Holocaust and carefully documents the pogroms and abuses Jews suffered in Russia and the Soviet Union across time. Solzhenitsyn\u2019s purpose in Two Hundred Years Together is simply to encourage both Russians and Jews to take responsibility for the actions of their \u201crenegade\u201d predecessors during the twentieth century. In such mutual repentance, he believed, lay forgiveness. \u201cA fair-minded critic can only conclude that there is nothing anti-Semitic or nationalistic\u201d about Solzhenitsyn\u2019s effort, says Mahoney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian C. Anderson writes about the new biography: Mahoney devotes a chapter to defending Solzhenitsyn\u2019s two-volume history of the relations between Russians and Jews, Two Hundred Years Together, from the accusations of anti-Semitism that some have made against it. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13775],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews","category-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t