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(2012) Isaiah Berlin, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Mr. Jericho's piercing eyes

Arie M. Dubnov

pp. 79-101

I hate responsibility.—Berlin to Elizabeth Bowen, no date, probably July 1937The thirties was a decade in which Berlin, already enjoying small celebrity thanks to his appointment to All Souls, underwent a remarkable change. First, this was a decade marked by slow, gradual, yet consistent politicization. This was a twofold politicization, marked by the discovery of non-Marxist socialism on the one hand, and political Zionism on the other. By the outbreak of World War II Berlin had become a pink liberal and a Weizmannite Zionist.

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137015723_5

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Dubnov, A. M. (2012). Mr. Jericho's piercing eyes, in Isaiah Berlin, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79-101.

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