I give you the following choice, people. First, you be an open-minded, friendly, tolerant sort, with many outward-looking relationships, a wide range of cultural and other activities, and an approach to life that is positive, creative and multi-faceted. Or, second, you centre all your interests and concerns on the single objective of collecting books about 18th century music, maintain that only people who do the same are worth anything, and endure the animosity of others when you display this attitude in your dealings with them. So tell me, which are you going to go for? Oh, the first. What a surprise.
Such is the choice set up by Antony Lerman and said to be facing European Jews today - between diasporism and cultural Zionism (see his paragraphs 3 and 4). Pull the other one, why don't you? Once there was an open-minded, friendly and most tolerant sort of a bloke, with many outward-looking relationships, a wide range of cultural and other activities, and an approach to life that was positive, creative and multi-faceted. An important interest of his was in collecting books about 18th century music. His name was Tertium Datur.