When Universalism Breaks: Norman Podhoretz, Jewish Peoplehood, and Life in Exile It has almost become a cliché. Many Jews have followed a similar path: an early attraction to left-wing politics and universalist ideals, followed, sometimes gradually, sometimes abruptly, by a painful awakening to antisemitism. It happened after the Six-Day War, when Jewish self-defence suddenly became morally suspect. It happened under Stalin, when the rhetoric of universal equality coexisted w
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