The End of the Jewish People?

Georges Friedmann

1965

Dialogue

At last you admit that Israel, caught up in the wave of technical progress, is becoming an industrial society “like the others.” You find it acceptable that the Jews, transformed in the Promised Land into Israelis, pursuing comfort as a product of machines and mass culture, lose what is best in themselves, including the memory of their…

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Georges Friedmann

1902–1977

Born in Paris to German parents, Georges Friedmann was educated at the Lycée Henri IV and later at the École normale supérieure. His primary intellectual interests—influenced by Marx, Leibniz, and Spinoza, among others—were philosophy, vocational education, and sociology. His sociological work was devoted primarily to the moral and physical effects of industrial mechanization on labor. He also took a lively interest in the Jewish people, traveling to Israel in 1965, where he wrote his La Fin du peuple Juif?, addressing the present and expected future problems of the Jewish people and Israel. He was active in the French resistance during World War II; his experiences were published posthumously.

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