Our most read articles of the year
For this final issue of the year, and before resuming our usual publication schedule next week, we offer you a selection of seven of the most read and shared articles of the year.
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Jonathan Safran Foer: Acceptance speech of the 2025 Primo Levi Prize
On the road from undifferentiation to indifference. On the mass rapes in Israel on October 7.
From Here On, We Must Go It Alone
Saving Jewish Odessa
Eva Illouz: “If Zionism is hijacked by an authoritarian and anti-democratic political project, what will be left of it?”
The Khazars, the Jews, and Us: The Delusion of Origin and the Question of Zionism
Are there any Jews left in Algeria?
American writer Jonathan Safran Foer opens this dossier with his acceptance speech for the 2025 Primo Levi Prize, reflecting on Gaza, Levi’s intellectual and moral legacy, and the writer’s responsibility in the face of the world’s insensitivity.
While the testimony of former Israeli hostage Romi Gonen has reignited the debate around the sexual crimes committed by Hamas, Julia Christ’s rigorous analysis in “On the road from undifferentiation to indifference.” dismantles the mechanisms of denial and erasure at work in the face of the mass rapes committed on October 7, and questions what has long prevented the facts from being named.
In “From Here On, We Must Go It Alone”, the great German philosopher Jürgen Habermas offers a bitter diagnosis of the European political situation. As Europe discovers, too late, that it stands alone on the international stage, what hope can we have for its ability to persevere on the political and moral path it has chosen?
“Saving Jewish Odessa” explores the fate of a city where Jewish history, European heritage, and contemporary conflict with Russia intertwine. Joseph Roche recounts the efforts of the local Jewish community to survive in a context of war and departures.
Eva Illouz—in an interview following the Israeli government’s decision to disqualify her from the Israel Prize—discusses the confiscation of Zionism by an authoritarian project and its effects on democratic life in the Jewish state. She reminds us that the greatest threat currently facing Israel is internal.
In “The Khazars, the Jews, and Us,” David Lemler analyzes the periodic return of references to Yehuda Halevi’s Kuzari, a delusion of origins shared by the Israeli far right and radical anti-Zionism. He demonstrates how misreadings of this Jewish text, written in Arabic in the 12th century, have fueled the contemporary impasses in the debate on Zionism.
Finally, a question that everyone seems to be asking, since this text continues to ensure our success on search engines: “Are there any Jews left in Algeria?” Joseph Benamour revisits an almost total disappearance, but one that remains passionately present in people’s minds.
From all the editorial team of K., happy new year !
