Remembering Irving Howe

I met Irving for the first time in Israel during the summer of 1974. liana, his wife, introduced me to him, during a meeting with several friends, all peace activists.

Our very long conversation that summer initiated a twenty-year dialogue. In 1974 I was a member of a small peace party, “Moked,” and was preparing to publish a new monthly, Emda. My goal was to unite the factions of the Zionist peace camp and to clarify and defend our positions publicly. Irving immed...