Between two worlds, or Jewish fantasy in cinema

Dybbuk, golems, zombies, spectres, werewolves and other Mazzikim, Jewish demonology has penetrated the cinema, but what does it have to tell us? Between memories of...

By David Haziza

The Franco-Judaism that could have been

In February, we published a text by Gabriel Abensour lamenting the lukewarmness of Franco-Judaism and its disarray due to the neglect of its spiritual heritage,...

By David Haziza

Israel / Europe: back and forth

Zionism or diasporism? And what if the essence of being Jewish was precisely between these two options? Between here and there, between exile and being...

By David Haziza

David Nirenberg: ‘Anti-Judaism Is a Means of Thinking the World’

David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition proved an instant classic of Jewish studies on its publication a decade ago. Nirenberg, Director of the Institute for...

By David Haziza

Social Mobility, Swindling and Judaism

Most of the characters in the film Les Rois de l'arnaque (The Lords of Scam) - broadcast by Netflix, where this documentary met with great...

By David Haziza

Proust: Talmud and Kabbalah?

While Proust was not raised in the Jewish religion, much of his education bore the imprint of a social and cultural Judaism. But can he...

By David Haziza

Ritual Slaughter and Europe, Part Two

Would the prohibition of shehita amount to the prohibition of French Judaism? To many Jews in France, where rumors of a bill outlawing Jewish ritual...

By David Haziza

Ritual Slaughter and Europe (Part I)

A marginal or minimal problem for some, a barbaric custom that should be modernized for others, ritual slaughter is one of the pillars of Jewish...

By David Haziza