Shura and Shaya: an afternoon with Sir Isaiah Berlin.

American Scholar | March 22, 1998| | Copyright

My late grandfather, Alexander "Shura" Gerschenkron, the Russian-born economist, historian, linguist, translator, essayist, conversationalist, and "Harvard's scholarly model"--as The New York Times once referred to him--didn't feel close to many people. One exception was his dear friend Sir Isaiah "Shaya" Berlin, the Russian-born philosopher, intellectual historian, foreign servant, linguist, translator, essayist, conversationalist, bon vivant, and Oxford don. "Oh, they loved each other, those two!" my great aunt Lydia Gerschenkron Seward told me last summer at her home on ...

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