We are delighted to present the Isaiah Berlin lecture delivered at the Oxford University Chabad Society by Dr. Yoram Hazony, who is President of the Herzl Institute and former head and founder of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem.
It is humbling to come here to Oxford and stand in a place where Isaiah Berlin once stood and be tasked with sharing my own thoughts about Isaiah Berlin and his legacy and to think about the place of the Jew in contemporary philosophy and theology.
Let me begin this challenge by saying that if our subject is the place of the Jew in contemporary philosophy and theology, then there is no better place to begin than here at Oxford with Isaiah Berlin. In many ways we can think of his career that began in Oxford in the 1… Read More »