Tin Soldiers on Jerusalem Beach

Bernard-Henri Lévy

1977

Where Have All the Young Men Gone? (June 1977)

Taly

On a very hot summer’s day, at noon, I am in the kibbutz in which both my father, who died in 1972, and my brother-in-law, who was killed in the 1967 war, are buried. I am on my way to the kibbutz cemetery for a memorial ceremony in honor of my brother-in-law. The way from the kibbutz to the…
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Bernard-Henri Lévy

b. 1948

Philosopher, journalist, and activist Bernard- Henri Lévy was born in Béni Saf, Algeria; his family moved to Paris shortly thereafter. Lévy studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, and later began his journalism career as a war reporter for the underground newspaper Combat. In the 1970s Lévy taught epistemology at the Université de Strasbourg and philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. One of the leaders of the Nouvelle Philosophie movement in the 1970s, he cofounded the Institute for Levinassian Studies in Jerusalem.

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