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“The Lions’ Den” illustrates the individual struggles of Jewish leftists in the World War II generation to reconcile their conflicting impulses, the particularist pull of Zionism and the universalist pull of socialism.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

Educated classes are less moved by particularist appeals to ethnic and national identity and more by internationalism and universal norms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 30, 2016

The particularist group then, and their moral and political descendants now, strive to organize public authority, and public life in such a way, that they are distinctly subordinate to private and individual independence.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price

As it was, above all other French schools, the Jacobins dealt most sternly with particularist pretensions.

From Studies in Literature by Morley, John

At this time he was a brilliant orator, an able and ambitious politician whose political system was unsettled, but tended at the time rather in a nationalist than in a particularist direction.

From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)