Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

by David Caute,
The Jerusalem Post, May 3, 2013

Isaac Deutscher and Isaiah Berlin had a lot in common. Born just two years apart, both were Jews, refugees (Berlin from Latvia/Russia, Deutscher from Poland) who settled in England, multilingual, highly opinionated intellectuals. They exerted substantial influence in academic circles and with the educated lay readers in Great Britain and the United States.