Letter and memorandum to David Ben-Gurion (23 January 1959; in Hebrew translation) in Eliezer Ben Rafael, with Yosef Gorny and Shalom Ratzbi (eds), Zehuyot Yehudiyot: Teshuvot hakhmei Yisrael le-Ben-Gurion (Sede Boqer, 2001: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press), 160–6

  • repr. (in English) in Eliezer Ben Rafael (ed.), Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben Gurion (Leiden/Boston, 2002: Brill), 168–76
  • as Isaiah Berlin and David Ben-Gurion, ‘Religion, Identity, and the State’, New Republic, 1–15 January 2007, 23–8
  • as ‘ “Who Is a Jew?” – Professor Isaiah Berlin’s Memorandum to the Prime Minister of Israel, 23 January 1959’, Israel Studies 13 no. 3 (Fall 2008), 170–7
  • in Enlightening
  • the letter was also included, in its original English form, in two earlier mimeographed pamphlets – the first of these (untitled) was produced by the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem in 1959, and not continuously paginated; the second appeared in 1969 under the title Miqra’a be-inyan ‘Mi Yehudi’: Qovets teshuvot shel hakhmei Yisrael ve-nispahim [‘A Reader on “ Who Is a Jew?” : A Collection of Answers by Jewish Intellectuals, with Appendices’] - Berlin’s letter is on pp. 78–82
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