Abstract

On Marcuse's Jewish Identity Discussing the identity of his father, Herbert, and the family, Peter Marcuse says: "We were certainly Jewish; we would never have been in the US otherwise. My father was bar mitzvah'd, and to my knowledge his parents were relatively observant. But he himself was strictly secular. I remember at home hearing Jewish jokes, a smattering of Yiddish, Jewish friends, a Jewish intellectual circle—no doubt we were Jewish; but I remember no religious observance, no going to schul or services, even on the High Holy Days.1" This testament indeed seems to reflect…