Jewish has always been a multi-dimensional subject, and Ms. Goldman, Trotsky, Disraeli, and other famous people, including Spinoza, Mendelsohn, and Einstein, who were ethnically Jews but not always completely onboard by other definitions illustrate this pretty well. They have to be accepted for their contributions to history and to their people, even if they need to also be critiqued for imperfections in their assumptions and for the complicated way they've impacted their own people.
Her criticisms of the religion of her time were on-target. Her solutions were not so great. I looked in on this page researching her role in egging on the assassination of McKinley. Because of her fiery radicalism she sometimes had a blind "third eye" and "third ear" and so her approach often caused as many problems as it aimed to resolve.
Jewish has always been a multi-dimensional subject, and Ms. Goldman, Trotsky, Disraeli, and other famous people, including Spinoza, Mendelsohn, and Einstein, who were ethnically Jews but not always completely onboard by other definitions illustrate this pretty well. They have to be accepted for their contributions to history and to their people, even if they need to also be critiqued for imperfections in their assumptions and for the complicated way they've impacted their own people.
Her criticisms of the religion of her time were on-target. Her solutions were not so great. I looked in on this page researching her role in egging on the assassination of McKinley. Because of her fiery radicalism she sometimes had a blind "third eye" and "third ear" and so her approach often caused as many problems as it aimed to resolve.