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Leon Wieseltier (; born June 14, 1952) is an American writer, critic, amateur philosopher and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of ''The New Republic''. He is currently the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor and critic at ''The Atlantic''. ==Life and career== A child of Holocaust survivors, Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University. He was a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows (1979–82).〔(The Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture: Fall 2005: "Law and Patience: Unenthusiastic Reflections on Jewish Messianism" ), New York University. Accessed November 15, 2007. "Educated at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Columbia College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Harvard University". 〕 Wieseltier has published several books of fiction and nonfiction. ''Kaddish'', a National Book Award finalist in 2000, is a genre-blending meditation on the Jewish prayers of mourning. ''Against Identity'' is a collection of thoughts about the modern notion of identity. Wieseltier also edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled ''The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent'' and wrote the foreword to Ann Weiss's ''The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau'', a collection of personal photographs that serves as a paean to pre-Shoah innocence. Wieseltier's translations of the works of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai have appeared in ''The New Republic'' and ''The New Yorker''. During Wieseltier's tenure as literary editor of ''The New Republic'', many of his signed and unsigned writings appeared in the magazine. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the ''Jewish Review of Books''. Conservative columnist Joshua Muravchik called Wieseltier a "liberal thinker", and journalist George Packer called him one of the "ideas men of the liberal intelligentsia". Wieseltier served on the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and was a prominent advocate of the Iraq War. "I am in no sense a neoconservative, as many of my neoconservative adversaries will attest," Wieseltier wrote in a May 2007 letter to Judge Reggie Walton, seeking leniency for his friend Scooter Libby.〔(The Smoking Gun ) 〕 Wieseltier appeared in one episode of the fifth season of ''The Sopranos'', playing Stewart Silverman, a character whom Wieseltier described as "a derangingly materialistic co-religionist who dreams frantically of 'Wedding of the Week' and waits a whole year for some stupid car in which he can idle for endless hours in traffic east of Quogue every weekend of every summer, the vulgar Zegna-swaddled brother of a Goldman Sachs mandarin whose son's ''siman tov u'mazel tov'' is provided by a pulchritudinous and racially diverse bunch of shellfish-eating chicks in tight off-the-shoulder gowns". In 2013, he won the $1 million Dan David Prize for being "a foremost writer and thinker who confronts and engages with the central issues of our times, setting the standard for serious cultural discussion in the United States". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leon Wieseltier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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