The Trial of Elizabeth Cree (2012)
“On that foggy night in early September, Karl Marx was simply calling upon a friend. He visited Solomon Weil once a week for an evening of philosophical discussion. They had met in the Reading Room of the British Museum eighteen months before, when they had found themselves sitting side by side: Marx had noticed that his neighbor was studying Freher’s Serial Elucidation of the Cabbala, and all at once remembered reading it himself when he was a student at the University of Bonn. They had started speaking in German together, perhaps because they recognized some familial resemblance (Solomon Weil had been born in Hamburg, coincidentally in the same month and year as Marx himself), and soon enough they discovered a similar interest in theoretical inquiry and subtle disputes of learning. It is true that in his published writings, and in particular in the earliest of them, Karl Marx had condemned what he described as a degraded Judaism. In one of his first essays, “On the Jewish Question,”
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