Mirna Funk is one of the best-known Jewish voices in Germany. In her new book, she takes a look at 5,000 years of Jewish intellectual history.
The ethical principle “tikkun olam,” for example, certainly results in an activist attitude, but, according to Funk, it does not strive for an unattainable utopia. Anyone who divides the world into oppressed and oppressors, good and evil, people and monsters has lost, says Funk.