During this summer break, the magazine is suspending its original publications. While we wait for the fall season to begin, we are offering a special feature for each issue, bringing together some of our articles published this year around a specific theme. This is an opportunity to discover articles you may have missed, rediscover those that caught your attention, and share some of K.’s publications with friends who are not yet familiar with us.
As a reminder, our archives are open, and we invite you to browse through the hundreds of articles we have published over the past four years.
This week, there is a breath of spring in our special feature, because it’s K.arnival: masked or not, the driving forces of criticism are unleashed, taboos are broken, and a joyfully destructive irony brings down all idols. The ball is opened by the mysterious Valeria Solanstein, whose scathing “Jewish Scum Manifesto” attacks the deafness of the Jewish world to demands for women’s emancipation. Next come two texts in which the crack of the whip echoes with the distant sound of boots: “Unsubmissive?” by Danny Trom and “Masochism or emancipation?” by Karl Kraus, each in its own way questioning the place of masochistic fantasies in the contemporary leftist imagination. For the faint of heart, Barbara Honigmann’s short story “What do goyim actually talk about?” offers an ironic moment of respite from this wave of bad…
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This summer, K. invites you to rediscover, in each of its weekly issues, a feature consisting of five articles previously published in the magazine. This week with articles by Valeria Solanstein,...
À l’appel des familles d’otages et d’une large partie de la société civile, une grève générale aura lieu le 17 août pour dénoncer une stratégie militaire à Gaza perçue comme une impasse et une aggravation des conséquences de la guerre, tant pour les civils palestiniens que pour les captifs et combattants israéliens. Première mobilisation d’ampleur depuis la crise de la réforme judiciaire en 2023, elle cristallise la fracture politique israélienne. Bruno Karsenti y voit le rappel d’une question cardinale : celle du principe fondateur de l’État juif et de l’avenir même du projet sioniste.
For International Women's Rights Day, K. is publishing a text that is a departure from its usual line. A young Jewish woman sent us a manuscript that, pastiching the famous SCUM Manifesto (1967) by radical feminist activist Valerie Solanas, virulently expresses her anger at the Jewish world's deafness to the demands for women's emancipation. This anger is the political expression we get from bottling up what’s ready to explode.
This summer, K. invites you to rediscover, in each of its weekly issues, a feature consisting of five articles previously published in the magazine. This week, our “K.ritique” feature serves both…
This summer, K. invites you to rediscover, in each of its weekly issues, a feature consisting of five articles previously published in the magazine. This week with five pieces by…
This summer, K. invites you to rediscover, in each of its weekly issues, a feature consisting of five articles previously published in the magazine. This week: five reports, with articles by Joseph Roche, Anshel Pfeffer, Yeshaya Dalsace, Benny Ziffer, and an interview with Ber Kotlerman by Macha Fogel.
This summer, K. invites you to rediscover, in each of its weekly issues, a feature comprising five previously published articles from the magazine. This week, we have put together a…
Historian Deborah Lipstadt was the special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism under the Biden administration. In this interview, she shares her perception of the debates rocking the United States on this issue, between fears that Trump will exploit the fight against antisemitism and the progressive camp’s refusal to clean house.
This summer, K. invites you to rediscover a selection of five articles that have already appeared in the magazine. To kick things off, we have chosen the most read articles since the beginning of 2025: a diverse selection, but one that reflects the concerns of our readers. With texts by Benjamin Wexler, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stéphane Bou and interviews with Eva Illouz and Etgar Keret.
The spectacle of extreme polarization that is inflaming American society, particularly with regard to its university system, could make us forget the importance of the old tradition of liberal pragmatism. The interview we had with historian David Bell, professor at Princeton, reminds us of this, by refusing to exaggerate or euphemize the deeply divisive issue of antisemitism on campus. As Trump and the most radical fringes of campus progressivism battle for the right to sabotage the American university, David Bell points to the place where the fight against antisemitism and the defense of the university are intertwined.
How are American Jews experiencing the current political situation, in which their attachment to Israel, the democratic norms of their own country, and the security they believed they enjoyed in the face of antisemitism are all being called into question? For Sébastien Lévi, they are caught between Trump’s hammer and the anti-Zionist anvil – a divide foreshadowing the political reconfigurations and struggles to come.
Following the disturbing election results in eastern Germany, which saw the triumph of authoritarian, xenophobic, and antisemitic parties, Antonia Sternberger examines the roots of far-right ideas in the former GDR and their influence on Jewish life. Her investigation highlights a particular inability to learn from historical experience—whether Nazi crimes or Soviet dictatorship—which forces Jews in eastern Germany to navigate, with a remarkable amount of courage, an environment that oscillates between ignorance and outright hostility.
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