Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin

BERLIN--East and West, day and night--in the 1980s before the Wall fell. Through the eyes of a U.S. philosophy student. And Jewish, which makes for moments awkward, poignant, crass, funny, and always lurking. A city was divided, America the occupier, and the cigarettes not named Salem because it ...

Susan Neiman is Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and a former professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University. Her 2008 book Moral Clarity was named one of the year's Notable Books by the New York Times. She holds her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard.