Rome and Athens: The Eternal Foundation of Europe

by Georg Immanuel Nagel

Georg Immanuel Nagel rejects the claim of Israeli nationalist Yoram Hazony that European culture is based on Judaism.

Yoram Hazony is an Israeli citizen, a modern Orthodox Jew, President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and is considered a fanatical Zionist. His book The Virtue of Nationalism was controversially discussed by the mainstream. Particularly in the United States, his often very peculiar theses seem to find an audience. Hazony’s excessive Jewish nationalism has now led him to make some statements that are as absurd as they are revealing.