Pesso-Optimism: The Jewish Version, with Leon Wieseltier December 5, 2006

Leon Wieseltier has been literary editor of the New Republic since 1983. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and was a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows from 1979-1982. He has written many articles, including “Hitler is Dead” and “The Children of Qana,” as well as three books: Nuclear War Nuclear Peace, Against Identity, and Kaddish (a National Book Award finalist in 2000).

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