AFTERWORD

Hugo Bergmann’s public defense of Hans Kohn was remarkably guarded given their long friendship. Bergmann considered Kohn to be a friend, but also an ideological opponent and a tragic figure. Why “tragic” Bergmann did not explain, but many Davar readers must have assumed the tragedy to be linked to Kohn’s break from Zionism. Yet Bergmann insisted that “there is a lesson to be learned from” him.¹ But what lesson? Had this book been written in the early or mid-1990s, when the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization were in effect, Kohn may have appeared to be an