The French existentialist philosopher wrote Anti-Semite and Jew in the immediate aftermath of Nazi Germany’s retreat from his country in 1944; the essay was greatly influential in Europe and elsewhere and sparked fierce debate among American Jewish intellectuals. In discussion with Eric Cohen, Ruth Wisse explains what Sartre gets right and what he gets tragically wrong.
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