Article by Jérémie Haddad

Franco-Judaism: the twilight has not set in yet

In February 2024, Gabriel Abensour opened a debate in K. on the state of contemporary French Judaism, lamenting its lukewarmness and the neglect of its spiritual heritage. After David Haziza and Julien Darmon, it is now Jérémie Haddad’s turn to offer a friendly critique of the diagnosis proposed. Should we really regret a bygone era, when the present is full of signs of the vitality of a French Judaism that knows how to demonstrate its uniqueness in relation to the Anglo-Saxon and Israeli worlds?

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