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To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp by the Red Army, we are publishing a special feature bringing together texts published in K., dealing with the history and memorial challenges surrounding this place which symbolizes, more than any other, the horror of the Shoah. In particular, you’ll find a reflection on antisemitism “because of Auschwitz”, a clandestine manuscript written by Jewish prisoners of the camp who were already worried about the way in which the representation of the Shoah would be distorted, and several contributions confronting precisely these distortions and the difficulties in constituting a memory of the genocide.

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For the first issue of 2025, we invite you to read or re-read the 7 most popular articles of the past year.   The Eternal Settler Benjamin Wexler – Published…

In our final summer issue, we present you with a selection of texts that have already appeared in our pages, grouped around a key theme. With the end of summer and the soon to be starting new Jewish calendar year, this week we turn our eye to the complexity of Jewish identity and experience and the culture of questioning that accompanies us throughout – with perspectives from Ivan Segré, Mona El Khoury, Ruben Honigmann, Astrid von Busekist and Noémie Issan-Benchimol. 

The discovery of the bodies of the six hostages killed by Hamas, as the IDF approached the hideout where they were being held, has a profoundly contradictory meaning.
On the one hand, it shows the kind of enemy Israel is actually fighting: a movement whose aim is to murder Jews, one by one and as many as possible…

Every week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages, but have been brought together for the occasion around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover texts on the relationship between Jews and the political left with Avishag Zafrani, Gérard Bensussan, Ivan Segré, Mitchell Abidor, Constance Pâris de Bollardiere, Elisheva Gottfarstein and Sylvaine Bulle.

Every week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages and have been brought together around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover K.’s literary texts, with pieces by Moshe Sakal, Berl Kotlerman, Avishag Zafrani, Julia Christ, Stéphane Bou and Maxime Decout.

Each week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages, and have been brought together for the occasion around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover K. ‘s work about the realities of and stories to be told from life in Eastern Europe. With texts by Benny Ziffer, Gabriel Rom, Romano Bolkovic, Yeshaya Dalsace, Emmy Barouh and János Gadó.

Every week this summer, K. brings you a selection of six texts that have already appeared in our pages, but have been brought together for the occasion around a few key themes. This week, we invite you to (re)discover some of the first-person accounts written for K. With texts by Ruben Honigmann, Yossef Murciano, Judith Lyon-Caen, Judith Offenberg, Ivan Segré, Gabriel Abensour and Frédéric Brenner.