Interview with Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg’s historical work has shed new light on the Jewish condition, making it possible to consider them in their minority, marginal dimension, alongside the...
Avishag Zafrani
Articles by Avishag Zafrani
The sugar that melts in Vladimir Jankélévitch’s glass
Vladimir Jankélévitch was born 120 years ago, in 1903. The first biography of the French philosopher, and Resistance fighter who went underground in 1941, was...
The uses of Jewish tradition by the revolutionary left, part II
Continuation of Avishag Zafrani's interview with the philosophers Gérard Bensussan and Ivan Segré on the political uses of the Jewish tradition within the modern revolutionary...
The uses of Jewish tradition by the revolutionary left, part I
How can we understand the emergence of a political use of Jewish tradition within a certain radical left? Is this use paradoxical, ideologically overdetermined, or...
The Literary Museum – Proust Exhibited
The exhibition conceived by curator Isabelle Cahn and designed by Joris Lipsch at the mahJ in Paris – ‘Proust du côté de la mère’ --...
The archaeology of sight. On Patrick Zachmann’s journeys of remembrance
How to photograph Jewish identity? The one that has disappeared, the one that is hidden and the one that is claimed? These questions are at...
On Metaphysical Antisemitism
The concept of "metaphysical antisemitism" was first used by Bernard Lazarus - notably to explain the sophisticated antisemitism of intellectuals and philosophers - before being...
Hannah Arendt, an Enigma
Hannah Arendt is one of the major intellectual figures of the 20th century. A volume of the prestigious 'Cahiers de l'Herne' devoted to Arendt has...
Grey-eyed-Kafka
Kafka's art is accessible again. Hundreds of his drawings are now available, free, from the National Library of Israel, where the Kafka Archive--a collection of...
Filmmaker Yolande Zauberman: “When I Left a Queer Club in Tel Aviv, I Told Myself That Israel Was My Favorite Arab Country… “
Director of the film "Me Ivan, You Abraham", a fictional account in which Yiddish in Ukraine comes alive again, Yolande Zauberman tells us about her...
There Will Be No Trial
France’s Jewish community is reeling this week after the country’s highest criminal court, the Cour de Cassation, ruled Kobili Traoré, the murderer of Sarah Halimi,...
Joann Sfar: “I am terrified of the disappearance of a European Jewish cultural and intellectual life”.
Interview with Joann Sfar, who owed us some explanations about the title of his latest novel: The Last Jew in Europe.