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2009:

  1. Israeli Election
    Israeli Election

    with Sam Lewis, Martin Peretz, Leon Wieseltier and more on Feb 11, 2009

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    28 min
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  2. Daily Highlights Wednesday February 11, 2009
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    6 min
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  3. A conversation about the film "Defiance"
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    39 min
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  4. Daily Highlights Tuesday January 13, 2009
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    7 min
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  5. Leon Wieseltier on Holocaust survivors
    Duration
    31 sec
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2007:

  1. A conversation about The New Republic magazine
    Duration
    27 min
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2006:

  1. A conversation with editor Leon Wieseltier
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    20 min
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2003:

  1. An hour panel discussion about American foreign policy
    Duration
    60 min
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Leon Wieseltier (b June 14, 1952) is an American writer, critic, and magazine editor. Since 1983 he has been the literary editor of The New Republic.

Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University.

Wieseltier has published several fictional and non-fictional books including “Kaddish”, a National Book Award finalist in 2000, and “Against Identity”, a collection of thoughts about the modern notion of identity.

During Wieseltier’s tenure as literary editor of The New Republic, many of his signed and unsigned writings have appeared in the magazine.

Wieseltier served on the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wieseltier