From Left to Right by Sinkoff Nancy;

Author:Sinkoff, Nancy; [Sinkoff, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS010010 History / Europe / Eastern, HIS038000 History / Americas (north, Central, South, West Indies), BIO006000 Biography & Autobiography / Historical, HIS043000 History / Holocaust, HIS060000 HISTORY / Europe / Poland
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2019-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

A Small Circle of Friends

Dawidowicz’s post-1982 position rejecting all public criticism of the Israeli government pitted her against many friends. Her letters from the last decade of her life express her new opinion on the limits of American Jewish dissent on Israel’s policies and her decision to disengage from relationships with former friends whom she now viewed as political opponents.46 In October 1983, she informed Leon Wieseltier that since the war in Lebanon, “I prefer the company of like-minded people,” a comment that “rankled him.”47 Lore Segal, the refugee novelist who was part of the coterie of Dawidowicz’s female Jewish writer friends, was unable to win back her favor after they disagreed about politics.48 Her correspondence with the two lodestars of the New York intellectuals, Irving Howe and Alfred Kazin, illustrates the hardening of her position. She and Howe, bound to one another through their commitment to the Yiddish language, agreed to disagree. On the last day of 1982, he wrote to Dawidowicz, following up on a conversation: “[T]here is little point in some of us quarreling about Israel’s policies: we all have our opinions, sincerely held, and that is a fact of life.” He continued:

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