The Challenge and Legacy of Being a Jew from Hungary
Leon Botstein
THE MOST ENDURING AND INFLUENTIAL FACT in the life of George Soros is that he was born a Jew. His encounter with the escalating consequences of that fundamental and permanent fact during the first fifteen years of his life in Budapest began with segregation and exclusion, and ended in deprivation, terror, and the fear of death. Yet unlike some of his Jewish contemporaries, including members of his immediate family, George resolved to accept the basic and indelible fact that he was a Jew and would always be regarded as a Jew. When confronted with his identity as a Jew, he did not deny it. He remembers just one occasion when he was tempted. In 1949, on a trip to Switzerland, ...
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