Yeshayahu leibowitz biography of abraham lincoln

Israeli Orthodox Jewish polymath (1903–1994)

Yeshayahu Leibowitz (Hebrew: ישעיהו ליבוביץ‎; 29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewishpublic intellectual and polymath.

He was a professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry, and neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a prolific writer on Jewish thought and western philosophy.

My father's hero is Abraham Lincoln.

For Leibowitz, the success of national revival depended on what the Jews, as autonomous citizens and as a sovereign nation, would choose to do.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz The greatest figure in English history was Oliver Cromwell, in American history — Abraham Lincoln; both of them leaders of civil wars.

The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz1 aptly notes that Korach confuses achievement with aspiration; he does not understand that.

To this day I have a picture of Abraham Lincoln prominently displayed in my study at home.

He was known for his outspoken views on ethics, religion, and politics. Leibowitz cautioned that the state of Israel and Zionism had become more sacred than Jewish humanist values and went on to describe Israeli conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories as "Judeo-Nazi" in nature while warning of the dehumanizing effect of the occupation on the victims and the oppressors.^[1]

Biography

Yeshayahu Leibowitz was born in Riga, Russian Empire (now in Latvia) in 1903, to a religious Zionist family.

His father was a lumber trader, and his cousin was a future chess grandmast