A little Brecht and Weill for your Sunday morning – an anti-war song written specifically for Lotte Lenya to record and have broadcast into Germany – this is "The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife."
#Philosophy#Religion#Antizionism#Antisemitism#Weill: "Weil's philosophical and spiritual exploration spanned various religions, displaying a profound commitment to moral integrity and resistance against oppressive forces. Nevertheless, it is important to acknowledge that her stance on anti-Zionism occasionally veered into territory that could be perceived as perpetuating anti-Semitic ideas. Although hereditarily Jewish, Weil's family background and upbringing had no formal connection to Judaism or Jewish religious practices. She held that her criticism was directed at authoritarian nation-states and their potential for colonialism and oppression, rather than the Jewish people themselves. In The Need for Roots, she emphatically declared that ‘there is no such thing as a holy nation, emphasizing her broader critique of the misuse of nationalism to justify oppressive regimes. This viewpoint also extended to her rejection of the Roman Empire, which she equally abhorred. Weil's critique of Zionism can be seen as part of her broader condemnation of the authoritarian nation-state, which she believed had the potential to lead to the horrors of twentieth-century fascism. ‘Indeed,’ wrote Leslie A. Fielder in a 1951 issue of Commentary, ‘what vague sense of an obligation to Jewry survived in her was expressed in revulsion, a passionate anti-Semitism that upsets for once her cherished method of honoring contradictories.’"